Isnt it a fact that all digital sensors are rated in Mpixels but that is counting each of the mono red, green and blue pixels and when they convert to full color the image is interpolated upward to achive the same "Mpixel" figure. i.e. since it takes 4 mono pixels to create one color pixel, a 6Mpixel rated sensor is really a 1.5 Mpixel color sensor but the marketing guys like to keep that a secret.
JCO -----Original Message----- From: Caveman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2004 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: sad stuff about stock photography and up-to-date technology Funny, this morning I was doing a similar experiment but in the opposite direction. I was curious if the 5MP from a 5MP digicam (Canon S60 in this case) are really holding 5MP of real information or if there are "invented" pixels there. So I took pics with the same subject at nominal 5MP and the other MP sizes supported by the camera (3MP and 2 MP, and I didn't bother with the 640x480). I resampled the 3 and 2 MP images to 5 MP and compared with the genuine 5MP image. The 2 MP obviously lost some fine details, however the resized 3MP one was oh so similar to the 5MP one, except some JPG artifacts in a grass covered area. Except those artifacts, the fine details were virtually identical. Jens Bladt wrote: > Theres is realy very little difference between the to files - except > for the file size.
