Well, maybe, in olden times and in some instances. But I'd bet a month's wages
(easy for me to say since I'm retired) that my 100/5.6, 120/5.6 or 150/5.6 APO
Schneider Symmars will come pretty close to equaling the best 35mm lenses in a
head-to-head comparison of a 24x36mm crop from the middle of a 6x9 tranny.
Walt, who, as always, reserves his constitutional right to be wrong
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Geilfuss Charles" <Charles.Geilfuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Ian,
> I'm by no means an expert on MF lenses, but since it's a slow
> Friday afternoon I'll put in my half pence. While there may be some
> exception ('Blads and other hallowed brands) 35mm lenses are *sharper*
> than MF lenses and must be so to have a chance of producing a decent
> image with so little film. MF achieves its wonderful images by sheer
> brute force of square inches of film.
>
> Charlie
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of swisspace
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2006 3:09 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] resolving power and medium format lenses
>
> Perhaps I shouldn't have because it has got me confused, but is the
> quality of medium format lenses bette than 35mm, I mean if the resulting
>
> image from a medium format is better than 35mm do the lenses resolv
> more.
>
> I bought a second hand bronica etrsi about 12 years ago and have only
> put 3 rolls of film in it, partly because I lost the manual and didn't
> now how to use it and partly because of time, anyway I used it for the
> recent car pictures and spurred on I have just loaded another film into
> and handed it to my wife who promply declared its 3d, so I looked again
> and sure enough it does have a more 3d look to it, then I looked at the
> lens and the rear element doesn't look that much larger than some of my
> zuikos, so then I started wondering about resolution.
>
> i.e. if as discussed before we are reaching the limits at 35mm why do
> they sell more 22 megapixel backs for medium format.
>
> IanW
>
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