I thought the angle of light affected things like chromatic aberration. Are you saying that some light just bounces off the filter on the sensor and never gets recorded at all?
John On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:19:21 +0100, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Forbes wrote: >> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:39:09 +0100, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 27/9/06, John Celio, discombobulated, unleashed: >>> >>>> I've yet to see a wide-angle shot taken with >>>> a "FF" sensor that doesn't have soft or dark edges and corners. >>> Sorry John, but this sentence is meaningless. >> >> Cotters, >> >> Your experience might differ, but the sentence is not meaningless. >> >> However I am a little surprised by it. If the corners are soft/dark on >> digital, they would be on film too. >> >> John >> > > Not necessarily, Digital sensors need light that comes in close to > perpendicular to the sensor, film does not. This is the source of much > of the dark corner issue on FF bodies. The softness is more a lens > performance issue. It goes aaway when you mount lenses like a CZ 21mm > Distagon or Leica R 19mm via an adaptor. The FF sensors simply > outperform Canon's ultra-wide lenses. Note their 24mm and longer lenses > of good quality do VERY well on the demanding FF sensors. > > -Adam > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
