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Old November 20th 06, 07:32 AM posted to rec.photo.digital.point+shoot
Wladyslaw Wojciechowski
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Hello everybody!
Can anyone explain how it works when a camera has an 8 mpix sensor
and its owner decides to take a 1280x960 photo. In this case does
the sensor use all the 8 million pixels to create a smaller photo
or does it use only 1,22 pixels and which ones (from the center
of the sensor?
Regards!
Wlady
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Old November 21st 06, 10:29 AM posted to rec.photo.digital.point+shoot
minnesøtti
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Default SENSOR SIZE AND RESOLUTION


Wladyslaw Wojciechowski wrote:
Hello everybody!
Can anyone explain how it works when a camera has an 8 mpix sensor
and its owner decides to take a 1280x960 photo. In this case does
the sensor use all the 8 million pixels to create a smaller photo
or does it use only 1,22 pixels and which ones (from the center
of the sensor?


My camera Panasonic LX1 takes the pictures at a reduced resolution by
cropping the pixels. Only the centre of the sensor is used to capture a
picture. And, by the way, this also allows to increase the optical zoom
of the camera.

 




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