"DSLRs, Lenses and Film"

April 23, 2003 | Mark Goldstein | Digital SLR Cameras | Comment |

Bob Atkins continues his Canon 10D series of articles over at Photo.net with a look at whether you need to use quality lenses with DSLR’s.

“I often see comments that run along the lines of “Since digital cameras don’t have the resolution of film, you don’t get any benefit from premium lenses since the digital sensor limits image quality”. I also see statements to the effect that digital sensors need the very best lenses to give good results. True? Well from a theoretical viewpoint I can make a convincing argument based on convolution of MTF curves that better lenses should give better images even on small sensor, limited pixel count DSLRs. But what do real tests show?”

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