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To: portage who wrote (99249)	5/3/2001 11:23:15 AM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 436258

I have a G2 Contax and I can tell you nothing matches it for sharpness....ya gotta love Carl for lenses. As for depth of field there is the problem in most digital cameras that the area that is covered with CCDs or CMOS chips is smaller than what 35mm covers, so the area takes a smaller portion of what the lens covers. This is the reason that you have to use wider lenses to get normal focal length coverage. This gives you more depth of field not less because the shorter focal lengths tend to have wider depth of field than long lenses. On my Olympus digital camera it is really difficult to get that shallow depth of field look where a person is sharp and the background is nice and soft even using it zoomed in. It's easy to do with it on macro six inches away though. I've seen the output from the Foveon but haven't gotten my hands on one yet. It's the camera that will change everything. The fact that they use chips instead of CCDs makes an enormous difference and opens up a world of possibilities. We are no longer looking at just trying to match film quality but introducing things that film can't do. The worst thing about film is it's poor ability to handle scenes with an enormous range between highlight and shadow. Using chips to adjust as the image is acquired instead of adjusting the image afterwards with a DSP makes a world of difference. You can also introduce white point balance and motion control (or motion out of control if you want).