Resolving capabilities of the 35 Summicron 8-element

[james.liam]

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A summer's day on Cape Cod, Massachusetts; mundane image made on an MM v.I, stopped down to ƒ/8; original and a crop (~3% of the original frame). 

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[kiemchacsu]

Is it the capability of the lens or the body's sensor that made this very high detailed image?

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There is a group of people on the left. Could you show them in the same magnification?

[james.liam]

Is it the capability of the lens or the body's sensor that made this very high detailed image?

A bit of both but a high resolution sensor like the MM, will quickly reveal a lens' weakness or strength. 

[jaques]

this lens is awesomely sharp- and wonderfully built- little compares. This shot- is wide open at f2:

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Edited September 3, 2015 by jaques

[james.liam]

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[jaques]

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Is it the capability of the lens or the body's sensor that made this very high detailed image?

 

the lens first and formost- I would say the sensor just tries to keep up. If the lens cannot resolve the detail- there is nothing a sensor can do.

[jaques]

The lens is good:

 

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[MarkP]

Great photos jaques

[semi-ambivalent]

Great photos jaques

No kidding. Especially the one on top.

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