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[OM] Re: A successor to my E1

Subject: [OM] Re: A successor to my E1
From: <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:08:17 +0000
You've mentioned this diffraction thing before but I have a tough time 
believing it.  Have you got some technical exposition that explains how this 
can be done?

Chuck Norcutt


>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  Subject: [OM] Re: A successor to my E1
>  Sent: Oct 08 '08 08:34
>  

>  Landscape photography generally means DoF and the 2-stop gain with the 4/3
>  format does help offset other things, including diffraction.  Speaking of
>  diffraction, modern lenses are not linear in the diffraction calculations.
>  You cannot just apply the same old equation which worked for
>  spherical-elemented primes to today's aspherical wonder-lenses. The optical
>  engineers have been gaming the physics tables for quite some time.

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