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Forum: Pentax K-5 & K-5 II
10-14-2010, 12:11 PM
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I will be the first to admit, I am confused by this whole post.
I understand difraction, and note that it is not a magical thing that happens at F16 and smaller, but that it is always present, it is just that the ratio of the area impacted by difraction is a much larger percentage of the image at small apertures that it begins to dominate.
Additionally since this is a lens problem, pixel count, or specifically pixel density should not be an issue, AND, considering the pixel densityu of a P&S camera and the very very small apertures if it is killing the D3x than no point and shoot should work at all, yet they do. This is especially true considering how small the aperture is physically on a P&S.
As for having print size in the equation, to me, it seems that we are discussing similar issues to depth of field, with respect to when a sharp detail begins to degrade and look fuzzy with magnification.
Could it be that the whole issue here is that increased pixel resolution is causing things to appear less sharp, only because there are more pixels now in the detail, what once looked sharp because the detail was only 2-3 pixels wide could look blury when there are 10.
I think someone is spending way too much time in front of the computer as opposed to behind the camera
just my $0.02
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