Sorry meant 8304 points in the horizontal direction Cheers, Ronald ronald.arvidsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Hello, > > Thanks for the most interesting discussions.I'm almost totally a > lurker but since digital world is in my sphere I have some points to > make. > > The new Kodak 53.6 sensor has a resolution of 8304 pixels. This makes > 155 pixels/mm. In order to be useful for resolution ppurposes you need > at least 2pixels/line or rather 4 to get a workable resolved line. > This does not imply its perfectly resolved. Viewing Zeiss mtf charts > shows that the Biogon is a marvelous lens, In fact the MTF center > values for 40 lines/mm is about 60% - compare that to many other > "digital" APS-C lenses. See the MTF charts from Zeiss at > http://www.zeiss.com/C12567A8003B8B6F/EmbedTitelIntern/Biogon4. > 5_38mm_CFi_104942_e/$File/Biogon4.5_38mm_CFi_104942_e.pdf > > So gentlemen draw your own conclusions how good a lens must be to beat > the Biogon. The only drawback - which maybe modern CCDs have overcome > - is if the angle of incidence on the sensor as you guys have noted > makes for loss of energy on the CCD in the corners of the sensor. > > Cheers, > > Ronald Arvidsson > > > Ulrik Neupert wrote: >> Dear friends, >> I have no personal experience with digital backs. During Photokina I > visited >> the Phase One booth to have a look at recent developments in digital > backs. >> They now offer the P65+ back with 60,5 MP and sensor size of 53,9 x > 40,4 >> mm. I expressed my happyness that now a Hasselblad SWC will still be >> superwide with this back. They told me that their sensor would not > have a >> problem with vignetting but that the Biogon would not offer the > resolution >> to exploit their sensor fully. If this is true or a marketing > strategy to >> sell their claimed to be superior Phase One camera (Mamiya, i think) > i do >> not know. But I'd welcome comments on this question. >> >> Ulrik >> >> >> > ============================================================================================================= >> To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to > your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you > subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > > > ============================================================================================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.