The Naked Sensor

Link: Luminous Landscape

It’s probably no coincidence that Kodak sensors are in all three of those Leica models (listed just above) and that both companies have chosen to make cameras without AA filters. I’ve never asked Leica about the following but I can imagine some early prototype tests in which an AA filter was included in a DMR test mule. I then imagine the optical design team, in particular, being rather aghast at what that filter had done to the fine resolution delivered by their lenses. Leica lenses, as a rule, are quite expensive and a great amount of time and money goes into tweaking their performance. To then throw some of that performance away, via the AA filter, probably seemed anathema to the company. I can’t say that I disagree with that thinking.