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You would be surprised. A high quality lens built for full frame 35mm film has a resolution on the order of 200 lpm on the film plane (2.5 um pixel pitch). There’s an interesting relationship between sensor resolution (including any AA filter) and lens resolution, and how they combine to deliver the total (system) resolution.
