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Eugene
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Hillsborough, CA
 
2006-11-09, 21:29

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Kudos to anyone who can figure out what this is!
A lane marker?

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The first is from a 10MP camera, the second a "half size" setting from the same camera. The SD14 images are 2,652 × 1,768. That is, when you open a document in Photoshop and go to "image size"... the above number is what you will see and what you will have to work with in terms of data. The above number is less than 5MP. You can spin it any way you want but it's a relatively low resolution IMO.
If you were in RAW you will have 14mp worth of "data" to work with, same as Fuji's 12mp SuperCCD. If you check the size of the RAW files, you'll be able to confirm this.

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It may stand up to 50% Bicubic Smoother enlargements better than any other 4, 5 or 6 MP camera for example, but that doesn't make it "equivalent" to a good 8MP, because that 8MP is what it is. You don't have to stretch the image data to get there the way you would with an SD14.
The bottom line is a RAW file from a conventional camera must first be run through bayer interpolation to create a usable image. This process *is* stretching to some extent. Luminance affects sharpness...and with incorrect levels of red light being measured by a blue photodiode, do you think the luminance will be accurate?
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