Re: filmscanners: NIKON LS 4000 AND D1X

[Steve Greenbank]

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From: "Steve Greenbank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: filmscanners: NIKON LS 4000 AND D1X


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> From: "Robert Meier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 5:47 PM
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: NIKON LS 4000 AND D1X
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> > Or another way to look at it is that you just crop the inner part of a
> > 35mm frame. In other words, you are using just parts of what your 35mm
> > lens covers. That means you have lots of glass (the area increases with
> > the square of the radius) that you waste.
>
> But you do have the advantage that the centre is invariably sharper, often
> much sharper, than the edge.
>
> Steve
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>
I forgot any nasty lens distortion is usually concentrated at the edges.

Steve