24 MP from an entry level DSLR

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Re: 12mp - 8mp = 406272? Baloney.
In reply to ProtoPhoto, 5 months ago

ProtoPhoto wrote:

With all due respect, while my particular graduate degree isn't in mathematics, between undergraduate and graduate I more than fulfill the requirements for a BS in statistics, and you guys are going way, way off track here.

We're measuring area, not a line.

We don't see lines, we see area.

I understand where people are going with dpi and "resolution", but that is with all due respect, mathematically ignorant.

With a 18 megapixel image, we see 18 million pixels, which is 50% more than 12 million pixels. Period.

BINGO.

Sovran has introduced a bit of the poison fruit, in terms of what can appear logical on the surface, but is nonsensical one level down. IMHO and YMMV.

I think he got a link to some online baloney and insisted on pushing said baloney. My rudimentary drawing illustrated where he got his flawed conclusion from and WHY it was flawed, and he apparently looked at it for three seconds and threw his hands up in the air and went back to defending his nonsense, declaring that I was 'over complicating' the situation.

I stand by what I posted in terms of pixels of resolution comparing A to B sensor sizes.

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