Crop factor and edges

[djkarn105]

I've been thinking about Crop factors a lot lately and something occurred to me.

At a reasonable fstop most lenses will perform fairly decently. One of the signs of a quality lens is the absence of vignetting, chromatic aberattion, and edge sharpness wide open. The thing is, when you're using a Full Frame 35mm lens, the sensor will crop much of those imperfections out.

So in theory, you should get somewhat better performance out of FF 35mm lenses on a gh1 than on the 5Dmkii no?

 

[yslee]

Yes and no. Yes because you're using the sweet spot. No because the pixel density requires higher resolving lenses. Though that is less of an issue with most modern optics.