Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >