Pixel size more important than megapixel amount for image quality?

[mosswings]

Now we are back to a large pixel (lens)

 

[Julia Borg]

a larger lens senor pixel will have a greater sensitivity

exposure is not per pixel. it is per area unit.

 

[tony field]

I'm not changing the subject a larger lens senor pixel will have a greater sensitivity unless you connect several smaller ones together in series and then you loose resolution and still don't match low light capability.

In series??? As far as I can figure out, a large pixel is thought of as "small pixels in parallel" and the Poisson noise of the "small pixels" combines in quadrature. Effectively, parallel is an area concept? I cannot imagine it in a series.

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