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Who only 16k for a camera sensor

Started Jan 21, 2020 | Discussions thread
Barry Twycross Veteran Member • Posts: 4,780
Re: Who only 16k for a camera sensor
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Brisn5757 wrote:

I have the G7 camera which has a 16k pixel sensor and I noticed the Panasonic produced other cameras that have a 16k pixel sensor, so I'm wondering why not move to higher pixel sensors like other manufactures have.
The only advantage of a 16k sensor was when I was only holiday I could take a lot of photos without fulling up the media card.

I don't need the extra pixels. I'm quite happy with 16Mpix.

I've compared the output of a 16Mpix sensor (in my GX850), against a 20MPix sensor (in my GX9). The 16Mpix is less noisy, even when you downrez to the same size for comparison. The 20MPix makes marginally sharper images (when you downrez to the same size of comparison).

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