On 4 Oct 2006 at 15:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> ---- Willem-Jan Markerink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Haven't checked this specification for a long time, but with the
> > EOS-1(n), there was a limit of f2.8 for the AF-sensor, being
> > functional with both vertical and horizontal lines. On the
> > PhotoKina, the Canon guys looked at me as if they saw water burning,
> > when I mentioned this in the context of the new 70-200/4.0 IS....as
> > if there never was such a limit, for more than one generation....
> > Yet I don't even recall any big boasting of this limit being
> > nullified with any of the later EOS-1 series.... I do recall vaguely
> > that the medium grade models suffered less from this, but only by
> > comprimising low-light performance....the center sensor of the EOS-1
> > was much better in that context)
> >
> >
> IIRC, the EOS3, and subsequently, the 1v, had a lower limit of f8, but
> I don't know if that carried over to the digital versions. As far as
> I know, all other models, Elan7, 30D, 5D, etc have that f2.8
> limitation. Skip Middleton
Hmm, yes, but did this f8 limitation not apply to the outer/excenter
sensors only?
Including being much less light-sensitive, the cross-sensor still
beating them (and all the lower grade models)?
--
Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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