I think if the lens if of good quality taken under controlled conditions the difference if any would be miniscule and of no real importance unless you are comparing the results on an optical bench. The main difference would be between the sensor and the film - not the lens.
That’s what I meant. Film should enable the vintage lens to show better results, shouldn’t it…?
There is no better or worst it comes down to how you use it.
Light reaching the film from the lens and how the film reacts to the light is much different than how a sensor reacts to the light coming from the same lens…!
It is the opposite. Film doesn’t make a film lens look better, digital just makes a film lens look worse.
Its different, not better or worse.
Film lenses do not have to worry about different wavelengths of light being bent differently, and thereby causing Chromatic abberations seen in the resulting image. Digital lenses, especially digital wide angle lenses, have to be designed so that light strikes the sensor more perpendicularly to the surface of the sensor, so that Chromatic abberations are not as emphasized by sensels which are sensititive to a single wavelength (red vs green vs blue).
So digital sensors will show off chromatic abberations from wide angle film optics which do not need to be corrected as much for film exposure.
When shooting with telephoto focal lengths, the issue of chromatic abberations are general not an issue.
The assumption is invalid.
My 55 micro nikkor works great on my film Nikons and a d4 and d800. Otherwise I stick to film-era lenses for film cameras and digital-era lenses for digital cameras. What is the purpose of this discussion anywa?
For my understanding of the differences using vintage Nikkor lenses with both formats…!
Why not…?
The potential issue is that if the rays strike a digital sensor at an oblique angle, you can see color fringing that isn't an issue with film. As a practical matter, I'd only be concerned about very wide lenses, and I'm not sure it's so relevant when discussing retrofocus lenses designed for SLRs. It might be a bigger problem with rangefinder or large format lenses.
Mostly because it, the assumption, presumes facts with no evidence. Phrased as a question probably is more correct way to broach the topic.
I think the evidence has already been shown by other contributors…!
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