Digital BW, The Print

Austin, it is indeed a "3" megapixel camera, but has the quality of a 9
Megapixel camera. 

Jerry



Austin Franklin wrote:
> 
> > The SD9 isn't a 9 megapixel camera, just a 3 megapixel true colour camera.
> 
> That is absolutely correct, though "true" color I'd debate...three
> color/pixel camera yes.
> 
> The fact that the Bayer pattern sensors have more positional information is
> why they technically have a higher resolution (in the dimensional sense, as
> opposed to the color sense).  But I have always not liked them being called
> N MegaPIXEL sensors.  The are truly N MegaSENSOR sensor arrays, since one
> sensor element does not have sufficient information for a pixel, and pixels
> are either monochromatic (grayscale), or contain full color information
> (RGB, CMYK etc.).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Austin
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