Tim BSRIPN
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24x36?
Don't you mean, and I quote, "A 36×48mm2 48M-pixel CCD imager for professional DSC applications"?
Still pretty great anyway!
Memo to self: read more carefully.
Tim BSRIPN
If I had all the money I've spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink
Like current "high resolution" DSLR sensors, this one has a pixel sizel of around 6 microns. i.e. the critical resolution is ~167 lines per millimetre.
How many lenses are that good?
Quite frankly I'd have thought that the the chance that a medium format lens would have that sort of resolution is nil. A larger format is used so that there is less need for enlargement, so the design circle of confusion is larger ... a lens with a resolution of 10 lines/mm is perfectly adequate for making 10x8 contact prints!
Once again, I'm afraid, we have "megapixel madness"....
It's easy to blame the agencies who want "high resolution" images, but there is (or at least should be) a clear distinction between the amount of detail in an image and the image size in raw pixels.
If you're not living on the edge, you're wasting space
I think you'll find the new Leica S lenses blow that theory out of the water...
Mark
Are you not mixing up lines and line pairs per millimetre here? 80+ line pairs/mm is common enough with medium format lenses, albeit by no means universally achieved. Modern MF/LF lenses do seem to be generally better than those of a few decades ago - achieved resolutions in excess of 100 line pairs/mm are by no means unknown.Like current "high resolution" DSLR sensors, this one has a pixel sizel of around 6 microns. i.e. the critical resolution is ~167 lines per millimetre.
How many lenses are that good?
Also, modern LF 'digital' lenses, like Schneider's Digitar series, seem (by all accounts) to resolve much more highly than their designed-for-film siblings on a per focal length basis. This is at the expense of coverage circle though, but given that the formats involved are much smaller that is presumably somewhat academic.
Comparing it to the 247 MP Red Camera that is coming out soon, I guess it's nothing! =]
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