Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/27

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Subject: [Leica] Dumb pixel question
From: benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 15:48:26 +1030
References: <CAFuU78ckw6Zit5h-BjnHFeoFeDnYuTyZAX-VN+K_XH9XL21+Sg@mail.gmail.com>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter

A 16 mp sensor has 8 million pixels with a green filter, and 4 million each
with red and blue.

Marty



On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dumb because I should know the answer, but I don't. Here it is:
>
> If the various filters (Bayer etc...) break down incoming light into eg
> GRGB values and each value is recorded ...
>
> Does that mean that an 18mp sensor has 18mp x 4 four sensing points each =
> 72m sensels or the opposite 18m / 4 sensels to produce a single pixel =
> 4.5m points of color?
>
> -Lew Schwartz
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