DxOMark: Is the 75 1.8 the best m43 lens Available?

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MAubrey
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Re: DxOMark: Is the 75 1.8 the best m43 lens Available?
In reply to Great Bustard, 4 months ago

Great Bustard wrote:

That is to say, it isn't that μ43 lenses are sharper than FF lenses is a myth, it's that the claim is true ​onlyin an incredibly narrow sense and one that is in many ways very much irrelevant to the final photo.

In fact, it is the relevant for the final photo.

Yes and no. I'm not talking about photos. I'm talking about lenses--or, I should say, I intended to... I stated it rather poorly.

It's the difference between lines per picture height and lines per millimeter.

Lines per picture height on the photo vs lines per millimeter on the sensor. We are talking about photos, right?

What we're talking about is the sharpness of a lens, which is complicated by the fact that we only have access to its sharpness via sensors and photos. To put it another way: Will a FF lens give as high quality an image on a μ43 sensor as a native μ43 lens?

Answer: No (but you already know that, you just wanted to argue with my botched details).

The fact of the matter is that FF lenses don't need to resolve as many lines per millimeter to still have more resolution than μ43 lenses in terms of lines per picture height simply because FF sensors have more millimeters available.

An mFT lens must be twice as sharp as a FF lens to resolve as well on the final photo (for sensors with the same pixel count and AA filter), and is commonly known as the "enlargement factor".

Exactly. Which means that in that sense (irrelevant to actual photos, ​as I have already said​) μ43 ​can ​be described as sharper than FF lenses in a narrow. But that sharpness doesn't necessarily give a better image.

Marike6 understood what I was ​trying​ to say, even though I botched the details. Perhaps your great need for everything to be stated in a technically perfect way might result in your misunderstanding a great deal of people who agree with you, but cannot expressed it as precisely as you can.

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--Mike

Edited 4 months ago by MAubrey
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