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RE: filmscanners: Pixels per inch vs DPI
Julian, of course it's true! I really wouldn't have said it if it wasn't
true! Do a little research and you'll find out. It's called the "Bayer
Pattern"...
I believe some of the digital camera web sites talk about this, I have seen
it "documented" on the web in a number of places.
Do let me know what you find...
>
> 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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