At 9:23 AM +0000 12/18/03, olympus-digest wrote:
>Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:05:19 -0800 (GMT-08:00)
>From: Stephen Scharf <scharfsj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [OM] E-1 reviewed in PC World
>
> >Subject: Re: > From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:31:00 -0800
>[snip]
> >That lens is a recycled APS film lens. The reason for the unique mount is
> >not that it is digital, but
> >that it recesses into the camera and would be struck by the mirror or a
> >normal Canon camera. They rejiggered the mirror movement of the 300D so
> >as not to hit it. Oly says that the lens needs to be farther away from
> >the sensor plane to get the needed parallel rays for best image
> >quality.
>
><SNIP>
>
>Hmmm...I thought the rays needed to be perfectly perpendicular to the sensor!
>;-)
Almost. The spec is something like +/- 5 degrees of perpendicular. If one
exceeds this, one gets increasing light falloff. It's all in the KAF-5101CE
specsheet.
Joe Gwinn
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