An acquaintance of mine is an audiophile who is able to reliably perceive differences in sound between various types of speaker cables. The fact that I can’t hear these things has likely saved me a good deal of money over the years. I’m plenty happy with my shit cables. Are there discernible differences in images captured using various sensor technologies? An art historian I once knew was a connoisseur of the Foveon sensor. Me? I’m still deciding whether the sensor matters enough to care about, but I have no doubt that there are photographers out there who can reliably spot a photograph captured using a CCD sensor from one made using CMOS technology the way some folks can accurately identify an image shot on film. What I do know is that my teenaged CCD camera did a phenomenal job of rendering these tulip magnolia flowers.
Tasting notes: Olympus E-500 camera, Zuiko Digital 35mm f/3.5 macro lens.
