On Apr 30, 7:54 pm, tacit <tac...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "ronvi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
" <ronvi...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > I know that some of the high mega pixel point and shoot cameras have
> > little tiny sensors while the dSLR have, sometimes, fewer mega pixels
> > but relatively large sensors. I wonder if there is a distortion analog
> > between that and the size of the silver halide? Anyway thank you for
> > the explanation. Someone on a forum was describing a digital photo as
> > grainy and I didn't know what to think.
>
> The individual sensor elements correspond (roughly) to pixels in the
> image. It's actually a little more complicated than that, because with
> most digital cameras each individual sensor captures only one color
> channel of a pixel, and the other two color channels for that pixel are
> made up by interpolation; but pared down to its simplest, you can think
> of the individual sensor elements as corresponding to individual pixels.
> That's closer to the truth than trying to think of them as grains in
> conventional film, anyway.
>
> The person who referred to a digital image as "grainy" probably ment
> that the image appeared coarse, like one would expect with grainy film,
> not realizing what the term "grainy" actually means.
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