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Old 02/15/2003, 04:36 PM
sven sven is offline
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When a digital image is displayed, no matter what the shape of the cameras sensors, the pixel is going to be a dot in a row and column. The shape of the "pixel" that the camera takes, still must be displayed and printed in the row and column format. By the time it hits your screen it is basically a square. If you zoom in to a picture, beyond its resolution or in Photoshop beyond 100%, you will see how a digital image is "thought of" by a computer or pirnter. the only difference I can see in the shape of the cameras sensors is to pack more pixels into the same amount of space and therefore increase the resolution or number of pixels/megapixels. a 3.1 megapixel camera is just that, a 3.1 megapixel camera. Other factors can be equally important like the quality of the lenses. If you don't have a good lens it does not matter how many megapixels your camera has, it won't be any sharper.

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