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Zooming a 48MP quad-Bayer camera is not exactly digital; you can reconfigure the sensor to be a different resolution.
by astrange 3y ago
Zooming a 48MP quad-Bayer camera is not exactly digital; you can reconfigure the sensor to be a different resolution.
- dogma1138 3y agoIsn’t sensor reconfiguration still considered digital crop/zoom since it’s not part of the optical element of the camera? When sensors with microlense arrays become more common things will definitely become more complicated tho. We’re probably about 5 years from consumer grade MLA sensors still tho.
- astrange 3y agoIt's not part of the optics (since you can't move the lightwells) but I think it's still part of the analog system, so it's different from working on pixel or Bayer values.
- 4gotunameagain 3y agoIf you reconfigure the sensor without cropping you do not end up with a zoomed image, just with a reduced resolution one. With a fixed focal length in order to zoom you need to decrease the sensor size, therefore cropping, so digital zoom
- astrange 3y agoNot if you default to reduced resolution mode, then you can reconfigure to an increased one ;)
- 4gotunameagain 3y agoaaah interesting. Then the resolution is increased, but how does it affect the overall image quality since you have the same amount of photons in more wells ?