Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/11/04

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Subject: RE: digital, was: Re: [Leica] Piezo Plunge
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2001 21:35:45 -0500
 
> I believe Pentax were going to use the same
> chip in their
> (now cancelled) 6 mega pixel SLR.

As a note, for single shot digital cameras, a 6M sensor is NOT the same as
6M pixels...  Though the cameras do, typically, produce 6M pixels from a 6M
sensor array, %75 of the color data is interpolated.  The sensors use four
sensors per pixel.

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