Yes I know it's really very simple, but it's actually worse than that,
since we're getting to the level where quanta live.
Toralf Lund wrote:
>P. J. Alling wrote:
>
>
>>[ ... ] Rob Studdert did a masterful
>>analysis of why noise levels would increase as sensor densities
>>increased a couple of years ago. Maybe he'll repost it.
>>
>>
>I'm not Rob, but...
>
>It's really very simple: When the sensor elements get smaller, obviously
>less light will hit each of them during an exposure. This means that the
>electric signals representing the pixels get weaker, and the noise will
>be more significant in comparison. (The noise does not change, at least
>not significantly, with the element size.)
>
>- Toralf
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