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- From: hsong@ardour.bellcore.com (G. Hugh Song)
- Subject: Re: What does ED glass really buy you?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.201031.28985@walter.bellcore.com>
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- Reply-To: hsong@ardour.bellcore.com (G. Hugh Song)
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- References: <1993Jan21.094446.12281@sactoh0.sac.ca.us> <1jmhnoINNqbr@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 20:10:31 GMT
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- In article <1jmhnoINNqbr@cronkite.Central.Sun.COM>, dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard) writes:
- |> if you take a non-ED lens of the same focal length, and
- |> stop it down several stops, would not the inherent depth of
- |> focus at the film plane have much the same effect, esp. with
- |> a subject focussed at infinity? [...deleted...] What it comes down to,
- |> for tripod-mounted landscape use, with small apertures, is there
- |> any advantage to ED?
- |>
- |> Dave
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- What about a copy work? You need the ultimate resolution which
- is not limited by inherent diffraction from the finite-sized iris
- opening.
-
- Hugh
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