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Kirt Blattenberger

Post subject: A Great Primer on Camera Sensor Specifications

Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 12:09 pm

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I've always been dubious of manufacturers' claims of multi-megapixel cameras on phones and cams that cost only a couple hundred dollars, when condisering that high-end cameras of less pixel numers cost x10 as much. This brief article in the May 2012 edition of IEEE's Spectrum magazine does a nice job of summarizing the differences.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/tools-toys/pixels-size-matters/0

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