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What annoys me a lot is increase in megapixels in camera phones and stagnation in tesktop\notebook screen resolution. I don't need multimegapixel camera in phon
by yatsyk 16y ago
What annoys me a lot is increase in megapixels in camera phones and stagnation in tesktop\notebook screen resolution. I don't need multimegapixel camera in phone. To share photo with friends on facebook or twitter 0.3MP is more then enough but processing of multimegapixel image is not easy task for small ARM processor, so you get very slow response at all phone photo capturing and processing applications and getting annoying delays.
According to desktop screen resolution you are lucky if you can get screen with more then 2MP resolution. And this situation is same for years. It even getting worse after switching to wide screen because now you are getting less pixels on same diagonal and resolution.
- Yaggo 16y agoYou cannot directly compare digital camera megapixels with display megapixels. The former uses Bayer-interpolation (except very few cameras with Foveon sensor) while the latter has true RGB pixels. In the other words, the digital camera's pixel count of two million is shared between R, G, G, B pixels (500k of each – yes, most sensors have double green pixels). A Full HD monitor has 3 * 1920 * 1080 (sub)pixels. Because of Bayer interpolation, the true resolution of 3MP sensor roughly equals 2MP screen resolution. (Yes; I fully agree with your point that a phone doesn't need megazillion pixels. Sensor size is more important factor when speaking of image quality. [Not to mention the optics.])
- yatsyk 16y agoI'm not comparing them directly I'm comparing increase in resolution for camera phones and monitors. Resolution for mainstream camera phone changed from 0.3MP to 5 MP (same Bayer-interpolated megapixels, technology is the same) but I still need to use same 2MP (true megapixels) monitor for years.