[rollei_list] Re: Really Off-Topic, paraxial lenses for digital cameras

  • From: Thor Legvold <tlegvold@xxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:43:59 +0200

I'm not Richard, but....

On 2. juli. 2009, at 00.24, Don Williams wrote:

(I still don't understand why my film scanner doesn't care very much if the film is not flat against the glass, how does it still produce sharp scans?)

Because it has a lens optimized for flat field and a small aperture (high F stop) resulting in depth of field beyond the surface of the glass.

That's my best guess.

I'll leave the rest to the engineers :-)

DAW

Thor

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