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Do Sensors “Outresolve” Lenses?
by Rubén Osuna and Efraín García
We read everywhere that new high resolution sensors put pressure on actual lenses. These comments arise copiously each time a new sensor with higher pixel counts appears. It happened with the 22 millions of pixels of the Canon 1Ds Mark III, and it will happen again when the 25 MP sensor by Sony comes to life into a new camera. Are this kind of comments accurate? There is no short answer to the question, because the subject is complex. However, we will try to summarize several basic rules and results, closing a previous discussion at The Luminous Landscape.
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Lens resolution basics
To begin with, a bit of terminological precision will be handy. The finesse of detail in a photograph is resolution. This resolved detail has a part...

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