Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] RE: Horology
From: "Jean-Claude Berger" <jcberger@jcberger.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 09:34:07 +0200

Hi Jim,

> Pixels cannot be made smaller than 3 microns square.

Could you explain that? Do you mean it's physically impossible or is it
technically, for now, impossible?

> So even if we divide by
> twenty, we have a density range, within one square micron, of a billion.
> Rather than 4096 levels of density (twelve bits per physical
> pixel) in nine microns square or sixteen million
> combined color densities in 36 square microns.

You are certainly right but does it make a difference when a poor human eye
sees the picture?

All the best,

- --
Jean-Claude Berger (jcberger@jcberger.com)
Systems and RDBMS consultant (MCSE)
Lyon, France
http://www.jcberger.com