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Old March 21st 13, 03:03 PM posted to rec.photo.digital.slr-systems
Neil Ellwood
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Default I was told any good lens can out-resolve any sensor...

On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:48:01 +0100, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:

Neil Ellwood wrote:
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:45:31 +0100, Wolfgang Weisselberg wrote:
RichA wrote:


But has anyone on a D800 seen an excellent lens beat a good lens when
it comes to resolution, in the centre, at f/8.0?


Has anyone seen an f/1.4 lens beat an f/4 lens at f/2?


That's an old chestnut - they all would.


The even older chestnut is that f/8 in the centre is where even less
than stellar lenses are usually very good.

Oh, and that many people don't want to use only f/8 and the centre on a
D800.


(How do you stop UP an f4 lens?)


I don't know what you'd do it, *I*'d use a focal reducer.

-Wolfgang


With the only focal reducer I've seen it would still have been an f4.



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