Given that 43 and 50 are relatively prime this could mean a much lower effective resolution after processing the images if they're taken at full resolution and

Given that 43 and 50 are relatively prime this could mean a much lower effective resolution after processing the images if they're taken at full resolution and digitally manipulated. That would kind of suck. I have no idea how the optics systems work at this level, but if they can mechanically zoom out ~15% they can be sent to Google at sensor native resolution. When the gap between what the US federal government will allow and what the sensors can do grows a little bit more, I wonder if we'll start to see foreign countries advance in selling photography to corporations. The article mentions that the US government has had the ability to read newspaper headlines since the 70s -- given the progress of things it has to be getting affordable.