http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/7-things-for-january-22/ Tracking the latest developments in interactive rendering techniques Mon, 17 Jun 2013 03:17:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/7-things-for-january-22/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Naty Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:14:20 +0000 http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog/?p=749#comment-257 The camera article goes further than "adding megapixels is pointless due to diffraction" (though he does say that too); he shows that increasing resolution actually harms image quality! The reason is that the camera manufacturers don't increase the sensor size when they increase resolution, so the individual pixel sensors get smaller. Since they each have less surface area they collect less photons, increasing noise. The camera article goes further than “adding megapixels is pointless due to diffraction” (though he does say that too); he shows that increasing resolution actually harms image quality! The reason is that the camera manufacturers don’t increase the sensor size when they increase resolution, so the individual pixel sensors get smaller. Since they each have less surface area they collect less photons, increasing noise.

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