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Does NX1 body deserve a multiple aspect-ratio sensor?

Started Feb 24, 2014 | Polls thread
ttbek Veteran Member • Posts: 4,869
Re: Hootsmon's reading of the tea leaves

hootsmon wrote:

A picture paints a thousand words....

Hypothetical NX1 sensor architecture

The story so far:

  • Hootsmon's guessing that NX1 will have a multi-aspect sensor
  • Sensor will natively support 1:1, 4:3, 3:2, and 16:9 aspect-ratios
  • In UHD video, 16:9 frames get downsampled to 3840×2160, via a 3:2 pixel-binning pipeline
  • Additionally 16:9 video-mode gets a 128 pixel buffer on L & R margins, serving as a DIS buffer.

Well, I'm sold on it.  Whether Samsung went for it or not, time will tell ^_^.

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