On Jan 24, 2008 1:05 PM, Adam Maas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/24/08, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thibouille wrote: > > > > >They advertise 230.000 but it seems Pentax doesn't count the same way > > >as others so we'll have to wait for reviews or first hand experience > > >to know exactly. > > > > There's been a bit of controversy with counting pixels on LCD's because > > they're like sensors in that each point is either red, green or blue. > > To display a single color pixel from an image file you use three pixels > > on the rear-panel LCD. > > > > So when you give the pixel count of your rear-panel LCD, do you specify > > the number of hardware pixels in the display itself, or the number of > > image pixels that get displayed? The former number is much larger than > > the latter so that's the one the marketing guys gravitate towards :) > > > > The issue is that it's normally 3 dots per pixel with each dot being > an individual colour, and the display is 230k dots. But the fine print > says 3 pixels per dot for some reason, leading some to conclude that > those are full colour dots.
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