>I think this is the same reason you aren't seeing digital cameras, as a
>rule, coming with lenses any wider than a 28mm 'equivalent' (the Olympus
>C-2020 is the only one I know of this wide). In fact, most only have at
>most a 35mm 'equivalent' on the wide end, and even there you see chromatic
>aberration in the resulting images without having to look very hard. With
>wider angle lenses, the rays come in at too much of a tangent to the CCD to
>work well. I don't doubt that 'digital' lenses use optics to 'straighten'
>the rays somewhat, but even that doesn't seem to be enough to get high
>quality images with ultra-wide lenses.
yeah film! go film! ra ra ra!
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Be Seeing You.
Dirk Wright
The hieroglyphics are all unreadable except for a notation on the back,
which reads "Genuine authentic Egyptian papyrus. Guaranteed to be at
least 5000 years old."
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