Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 05:17 PM 4/8/00 -0400, austin@darkroom.com wrote: >The new crop of high end consumer digital cameras are 8 bits/pixel/color, or 24 bits per pixel. The Fuji FinePix 4700 is 2400 x 1800 x 3 bytes/pixel, so an uncompressed image is almost 13M bytes! > The Fuji 4700 is interpolated resolution. It uses a 2.n (somewhere between 2.3 and 2.7) megapixel sensor. All of the rest of the implied resolution is derived from interpolation. Basically, manufactured data. Fuji is catching a L-O-T of heat about deceiving the public. Webster: Main Entry: in·ter·po·late Pronunciation: in-'t&r-p&-"lAt Function: verb Inflected Form(s): -lat·ed; -lat·ing Date: 1612 transitive senses 1 a : to alter or corrupt (as a text) by inserting new or foreign matter. Jim