Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 1999 03:43 Subject: [Leica] The sensor manufacturers are trying their best > It is still a Bayer pattern sensor and you only get > 1.5 megapixels total out. A six-megapixel sensor puts out six million pixels, not 1.5 million pixels, with or without a Bayer pattern. I've already explained why chrominance resolution can be far lower than luminance resolution without showing any visible degradation in the picture. > Unlike the Leica S1, which is a 25 megapixel camera delivering a full > 25 million pixels of resolution. As long as your subject remains motionless for 20 seconds. It is poorly adapted to sports photography and birdwatching, I daresay. It's easy to get high pixel counts in scanning backs. > He also stated that it took millions of lines of C > code to manipulate a MegaVision raw image to make it > usable. Millions of lines isn't very much nowadays. It takes millions of lines to display a Web page, too. -- Anthony