[in an old thread] on 2013-10-10 9:28 CollinB wrote
So it's like the old 6-10Mp cameras equal shooting 125 and now we all have blad equivalent bodies and still drool for more.
taking this thought experiment literally, if we assume megapixel increases are equivalent to film area increases (that is, that every denser sensor resolves as well per pixel, and that lenses are perfect, etc.), and we assign 35mm film a nominal 10 megapixels, here are the pixel counts we'd need to achieve what larger film formats could resolve:
36x24 mm = 864 sq mm = 10 mp 6x4.5 cm = 2700 sq mm = 31 mp 6x7 cm = 4200 sq mm = 49 mp 4x5 in = 12903 sq mm = 149 mp 8x10 in = 51613 = 597 mp -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
