Puppylover16 wrote:

---

 

Psy wrote:

---

Puppylover16 wrote:

---

Psy wrote:

---

Well isn't this interesting...
Decent well-rated camera for $50. But it is Finepix.

-- Edited by Psy at 01:53, 2007-08-16

---

Just outta curiosity so what if it is Finepix

---

I have nothing against Finepix (I've never used one) but I got the idea from your previous post that you thought most of them sucked. :p

---

Oh no no no. I actually like Finepix. They take nice photos. What I meant was I've heard alot of people think they suck. I myself don't think they do ;p

I might consider getting that $50 one you pointed out for a started camera.

 

---

Puppylover16 wrote:

---

Thanks Psy! High chance that I'm getting that one for a first camera. Then I'll move up to the one IWN and PC reccomended.

Now could someone go into further detail on what MP is?

---

Digital cameras use photosensitive electronics, either charge-coupled device (CCD) or complementary metaloxidesemiconductor (CMOS) image sensors, consisting of a large number of single sensor elements, each of which records a measured intensity level. In most digital cameras, the sensor array is covered with a patterned color filter mosaic having red, green, and blue regions in the Bayer filter arrangement, so that each sensor element can record the intensity of a single primary color of light. The camera interpolates the color information of neighboring sensor elements, through a process called demosaicing, to create the final image. These sensor elements are often called "pixels", even though they only record 1 channel (only red, or green, or blue) of the final color image. Thus, a so-called N-megapixel camera that produces an N-megapixel image provides only one-third of the information that an image of the same size could get from a scanner. Thus, certain color contrasts may look fuzzier than others, depending on the allocation of the primary colors (green has twice as many elements as red or blue in the Bayer arrangement).

In contrast to conventional image sensors, the Foveon X3 sensor uses three layers of sensor elements, so that it detects red, green, and blue intensity at each array location. This structure eliminates the need for de-mosaicing and eliminates the associated image artifacts, such as color blurring around sharp edges. Citing the precedent established by mosaic sensors, Foveon counts each single-color sensor element as a pixel, even though the native output file size has only one pixel per three camera pixels.[1] With this method of counting, an N-megapixel Foveon X3 sensor therefore captures the same amount of information as an N-megapixel Bayer-mosaic sensor, though it packs the information into fewer image pixels, without any interpolation." wiki lol