I agree 176% .
Tom C. >From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >To: "pentax list" <PDML@pdml.net> >Subject: Re: Interview w/Pentax exec >Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:46:13 +0100 > >On 28/9/06, John Forbes, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Your experience might differ, but the sentence is not meaningless. > >Yes it is. > >Let's take a look at it in detail. > > >> I've yet to see a wide-angle shot taken with > >> a "FF" sensor that doesn't have soft or dark edges and corners. > >Right, I have some questions. First, just because John [C] has yet to >see a wide-angle shot taken with a 'FF' sensor that doesn't have soft or >dark edges and corners, does that mean that *all* wide-angle shots >taken with a 'FF' sensor has soft or dark edges and corners ?? Because I >have seen wide-angle shots taken with a 'FF' sensor that certainly are >not soft or dark on the edges and corners. So who is right? Hence the >statement is meaningless. > >Has the omnipresent Mr C actually compared all possible combinations of >'FF' sensors and wide-angle lenses, at different apertures and different >ISO settings etc etc ? Do you realise how many combinations that is? And >if he has, under what circumstances? > >The sentence is as meaningless as: > >'Christ the Lord has risen' > >'You get a better hit with cocaine' > >'You're safer with a Smith and Wesson' > >***however*** here is an example of the opposite: > >'You are statistically less like to get pregnant if you use contraception'. > >(Just trying to think if I can work in any more stereotypes here....) > > > >However I am a little surprised by it. If the corners are soft/dark on > >digital, they would be on film too. > >Not necessarily. I believe it's to do with the angles of incidence on a >FF sensor. Cheap lenses cause some problems in this area. > > >-- > > >Cheers, > Cotty > > >___/\__ >|| (O) | People, Places, Pastiche >||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com >_____________________________ > > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >PDML@pdml.net >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
