On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:32:02AM +0100, eckinator wrote: > 2009/11/24 Larry Colen <[email protected]>: > > > > I see. I was taking pixel to mean image pixel whereas you and maybe > Hassy take it to mean physical pixels / sensor surface units so I > guess we're talking about roughly the same thing. Why would it be 2 > green though?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter In short, the human eye is most sensitive to green, and people see green the sharpest, so having twice as many green sites most closely approximates human vision. -- The first step is learning to take great photos, the second step is learning to throw away ones that are merely good. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
