Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/31
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lucien jotted down the following:
> The D1X however is supposed to be equipped with a new CCD-sensor which offers
> a physical resolution of 5.3 megapixels (4,024 x 1,324 light-sensitive cells).
> By using a horizontal compression by factor 0.75 x and an inversed vertical
> interpolation by factor 1.5 x the camera would produce image files with an
> effective maximum resolution of 3,000 x 1,960 pixels (file size uncompressed
> 18 Mbytes).
OK -- I'm no digital imaging expert, but it seems peculiar to me that they
squish and sqeeze the image like that. Who's our resident expert? There's
someone on this list that does this stuff "for real" ;) What's the gain?
M.
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