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Meniscus lenses are simple enough to manufacture, which means that they can probably be made to vignette on a full-frame or crop sensor. The problem I see is t
by angusgr 16y ago
Meniscus lenses are simple enough to manufacture, which means that they can probably be made to vignette on a full-frame or crop sensor.
The problem I see is that you still need a -better- meniscus lens in order to get the same quality photo on a smaller film plane.
Maybe this isn't really a factor, but it's certainly one of the reasons why I prefer my Holga over 35mm toy cameras - you can see a bit more in your crummy quality photo. :).
- jnovek 16y agoI don't think "better" is really a consideration at the Holga or LOMO factories. :-) A guy that knew who was very serious about doing sharpness testing on lenses pointed out that lens resolution doesn't really matter that much. He claimed that most lenses had resolution far beyond the capacity of any media that we could record images to... and things like flare and aberrations were far more important. I have no idea how true this is, but it certainly sounds plausible.