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how many megapixels is 1080P?
Hi
I have some background in serious digital photography and own 2 A2's.
I was thinking about 1920x1080.
Does this mean that if you multiply this spec and get approx 2,000,000 pixels that a still 1080P frame is 2 megapixel?
I have some background in serious digital photography and own 2 A2's.
I was thinking about 1920x1080.
Does this mean that if you multiply this spec and get approx 2,000,000 pixels that a still 1080P frame is 2 megapixel?
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that doesn't seem like much when we have camera sensons cheap at 6 MP.
I assume the sensors for 1080P video have to be of higher quality and frame rate than camera sensors and thats why not used to get more data?
Or maybe then would be too much data to store practically.
I assume the sensors for 1080P video have to be of higher quality and frame rate than camera sensors and thats why not used to get more data?
Or maybe then would be too much data to store practically.
Well the 6MP camera spec = mostly marketing.
The 6MP doesn't translate to an equavalent screen resolution.
In most digital '6MP' cameras about 4MP are used to code the green color while the other 2MP are used to encode the blu and red color component.
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Originally Posted by draithby123 /forum/post/0
that doesn't seem like much when we have camera sensons cheap at 6 MP.
I assume the sensors for 1080P video have to be of higher quality and frame rate than camera sensors and thats why not used to get more data?
Or maybe then would be too much data to store practically.
Well the 6MP camera spec = mostly marketing.
The 6MP doesn't translate to an equavalent screen resolution.
In most digital '6MP' cameras about 4MP are used to code the green color while the other 2MP are used to encode the blu and red color component.
Greetings
6 meg image even with more extreme compression puts it down to 1 meg for a file.
1 meg = 1 frame of time. 24 frames per sec for film ... = 24 meg/sec.
24 per sec = 1.44 gb per minute.
1.44 gb per min = 86.4 gb per hour
typical film then needs 173 gb for two hours.
What format gives you 173 gb?
This is one reason why 1080p is 1080p.
Add to that ... people sitting at home at 8 feet away from a 40" TV can't tell the difference between 2 meg or 6 meg images.
Regards
6 meg image even with more extreme compression puts it down to 1 meg for a file.
1 meg = 1 frame of time. 24 frames per sec for film ... = 24 meg/sec.
24 per sec = 1.44 gb per minute.
1.44 gb per min = 86.4 gb per hour
typical film then needs 173 gb for two hours.
What format gives you 173 gb?
This is one reason why 1080p is 1080p.
Add to that ... people sitting at home at 8 feet away from a 40" TV can't tell the difference between 2 meg or 6 meg images.
Regards
Have you ever looked at a night shot from a cheap 6 MP consumer digital. Absolutely unusable IMO. Noise galore. And yeah, they don't do 24 fps either. And 6 MP on a digital camera is partially interpolated, since they don't use 3-colour pixels.
BTW, Corpse Bride was shot at 8 MP using Canon digital SLRs. That's different though, since it's stop action animation.
Huh?
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Originally Posted by draithby123 /forum/post/0
that doesn't seem like much when we have camera sensons cheap at 6 MP.
I assume the sensors for 1080P video have to be of higher quality and frame rate than camera sensors and thats why not used to get more data?
Or maybe then would be too much data to store practically.
Have you ever looked at a night shot from a cheap 6 MP consumer digital. Absolutely unusable IMO. Noise galore. And yeah, they don't do 24 fps either. And 6 MP on a digital camera is partially interpolated, since they don't use 3-colour pixels.
BTW, Corpse Bride was shot at 8 MP using Canon digital SLRs. That's different though, since it's stop action animation.
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Originally Posted by Frank Derks /forum/post/0
It's 6.2 Megapixels on a plasma or lcd screen.![]()
Huh?
Where are you coming up with this stuff?
Take my Nikon D50 for example. It's a 6 megapixel digital SLR. It's max resolution is 3008x2000 which is equivalent to 6,016,000 pixels or 6 megapixels. There's no interpolation going on to create a higher resolution image out of a lower res one.
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Originally Posted by Frank Derks /forum/post/0
Well the 6MP camera spec = mostly marketing.
The 6MP doesn't translate to an equavalent screen resolution.
In most digital '6MP' cameras about 4MP are used to code the green color while the other 2MP are used to encode the blu and red color component.
Where are you coming up with this stuff?
Take my Nikon D50 for example. It's a 6 megapixel digital SLR. It's max resolution is 3008x2000 which is equivalent to 6,016,000 pixels or 6 megapixels. There's no interpolation going on to create a higher resolution image out of a lower res one.
Frank is correct. Your Nikon D50 interpolates the colours. It has to, because it does not have a 3 CCD sensor. Effectively, your Nikon D50 is equivalent in some ways to a 2 megapixel 3 CCD camera.
In other words, your Nikon has 6 million subpixels, but it takes 3 subpixels to make a true full colour single pixel.
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Originally Posted by DeathKnight /forum/post/0
Where are you coming up with this stuff?
Take my Nikon D50 for example. It's a 6 megapixel digital SLR. It's max resolution is 3008x2000 which is equivalent to 6,016,000 pixels or 6 megapixels. There's no interpolation going on to create a higher resolution image out of a lower res one.
Frank is correct. Your Nikon D50 interpolates the colours. It has to, because it does not have a 3 CCD sensor. Effectively, your Nikon D50 is equivalent in some ways to a 2 megapixel 3 CCD camera.
In other words, your Nikon has 6 million subpixels, but it takes 3 subpixels to make a true full colour single pixel.
You guys really don't know what you're talking about contextually. If a camera is a '16 megapixel camera', it means the final images it produces (on high quality), will contain approximately 16 million pixels. Likewise, a 16 mp sensor, will produce images containing approximately 16 million pixels.
A fuji F200 EXR point and shoot, for instance, is at least 12mp in normal mode, but drops to 6mp in 'exr' mode, where the sensor doubles up pixels and then interpolates, gathering more light, and producing a 6mp image in the process. You will notice that megapixel, by the makeup of the very word itself, refers to pixel count. It refers to the final image, however, in the context of digital cameras. Make sense? Frank is absolutely incorrect -at least contextually.
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Originally Posted by BuGsArEtAsTy /forum/post/10629025
Frank is correct. Your Nikon D50 interpolates the colours. It has to, because it does not have a 3 CCD sensor. Effectively, your Nikon D50 is equivalent in some ways to a 2 megapixel 3 CCD camera.
In other words, your Nikon has 6 million subpixels, but it takes 3 subpixels to make a true full colour single pixel.
You guys really don't know what you're talking about contextually. If a camera is a '16 megapixel camera', it means the final images it produces (on high quality), will contain approximately 16 million pixels. Likewise, a 16 mp sensor, will produce images containing approximately 16 million pixels.
A fuji F200 EXR point and shoot, for instance, is at least 12mp in normal mode, but drops to 6mp in 'exr' mode, where the sensor doubles up pixels and then interpolates, gathering more light, and producing a 6mp image in the process. You will notice that megapixel, by the makeup of the very word itself, refers to pixel count. It refers to the final image, however, in the context of digital cameras. Make sense? Frank is absolutely incorrect -at least contextually.
You do know you resurrected thread that has been dead for more than 4 years, don't you?
Makes sense, because he/she joined AVS over 6 years ago and that was the first post. Maybe a time warp?
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Originally Posted by Colm /forum/post/21325966
You do know you resurrected thread that has been dead for more than 4 years, don't you?
Makes sense, because he/she joined AVS over 6 years ago and that was the first post. Maybe a time warp?
Maybe slow reader?
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Originally Posted by Ken H /forum/post/21328725
Maybe a time warp?
Maybe slow reader?
He wanted to make sure his first post was awesome?
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