Are you saying that each of the 2000X3000 pixels in a typical 6mP image are not independent true color pixels? I believe they are and there are a red, blue, and 2 greens sensors for each of them for a total of 24mP JCO
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- J.C. O'Connell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: John Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 3:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Sell me your useless film cameras > nope a 6Mp camera has 24M sensors not 1.5M > jco Wrong again. And in any case we weren't discussing the way marketing counts each sensor as a pixel, even though it only senses one colour component. I was merely pointing out that the usual Bayer array has a cell of four pixels, so the breakdown from th "6MP" cameras such as the *ist-D, D100 and 10D is not evenly divided into 2M sensors of each colour, but instead is 50% G, 25% R, 25% B. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > J.C. O'Connell mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jcoconnell.com > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Francis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 12:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Sell me your useless film cameras > > > > > > well, i suppose, for printing uncropped images at 8x10, > > 6M of RGB pixels is as goot as it gets. but i don't > > now any digicam capable of that. yet. > > Not yet. The Foveon sensor in the Sigma XD-9 is only 3MP > > > 6MP digicam has exactly 2M of pixels of each color > > Not even that. It's usually 1.5M R & B, 3M G >
