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RE: [Digital BW] Shooting Digitally

2002-01-18 by Austin Franklin

Hi Mike,

> I think tha visually you are seeing an image that looks like
> film, but in reality the camera would need to approach 16
> megapixels to resolve the finest films today.

By my calculations, it's just under 100M pixels, but certainly much less
will give you exceptional results, as seen by the very low res digital
cameras of today, like the D-30/D1 etc.  Remember, that one shot digital
cameras have 25% red, 25% blue and 50% green sensors...so the color
information is interpolated...so because a sensor is 16M elements, doesn't
mean you get 16M PIXELS of information...without making some of it up ;-)

Austin

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