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RE: filmscanners: Pixels per inch vs DPI
Austin - is this true? Can you show documentation to demonstrate? - bec if
it is true then I am very surprised and have been very badly mislead.
Julian
At 10:42 30/10/01, Austin wrote:
>Note, when a digital camera claims 6M pixels...that's in fact a flat out
>lie. It is REALLY 1.5M pixels, with four sensors per pixel...a pixel IS
>made up of all three RGB components, so it is really misleading to make the
>claims they do. They would be more honest to call it a 6M SENSOR array.
>How they get 6M pixel OUTPUT is interpolation...which, of course, means that
>%75 of the image data is just made up, and not real image data (to a large
>degree). And you thought the scanner dynamic range issue was misleading...
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