Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim Brick writes: > Remember, it takes four real pixels to make > a single color pixel. One red pixel, two green > pixels, and one blue pixel. > > This really means that the optical resolution > of a digital camera is 1/4 of the stated resolution. No, it doesn't. It means that the chrominance resolution is lower than the luminance resolution, and both are slightly lower than the resolution implied by the number of sensor cells in the CCD (but still much more than 1/4 of that number).