Top myths in photography

Uh...no, it's you that are confused.  The 2 micron image has both more detail and less noise in the final result.  Look at the right column.  Further, the noise is about the same to begin with, as it should be from sensors with the same generation and same exposure parameters.

I did not suggest smaller sensors don't have more noise - they do, but not because of smaller pixels.  It's because they have less total area and thus intercept less total light.  Smaller pixels don't have more noise, they have the same or less, except in certain very special situations that don't apply to most general photography, and that are becoming less important as read noise continues to drop towards zero.

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Lee Jay
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