Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey - I'll bite - I haven't had anyone flame or dump on me in about....oh 18 hours. Tell me about Bayer filters and why they degrade resolution. Or point me to web links that I can read . There - let the giggling begin. ernie nitka On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 08:01 PM, Karen Nakamura wrote: >> >> How technical is technical? Is "shutter button" a technical term? >> It may >> surprise you, Eric, but there are a LOT of people who know what a >> Bayer >> pattern sensor is...and there are a lot of web sites that give good >> descriptions/tutorials of this...so I think you are selling a lot of >> people >> short. Plus, it's necessary to the understanding of why the images >> you get >> from these sensors are NOT what some people think they are. > > Just to chip into a most enjoyable flame war, I think most people who > read the camera reviews on DPReview.com and other sites know what a > Bayer pattern is and why it means that a 8 megabyte file from a > digicam isn't the same as an 8 megabyte scan of a film negative. The > GRBG filter causes a lot of loss of resolution. > > It's about as technical as "reciprocity law failure" -- ie, something > that geeks would know *why* it happens, but that consummerate > photographers know occurs. > > Karen > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html