From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Jul 4 21:39:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FEBF14ED5 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 21:39:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA24036; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:09:18 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id OAA09820; Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:09:01 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 14:09:00 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Luigi Rizzo Cc: archie@whistle.com, freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital cameras Message-ID: <19990705140900.I451@freebie.lemis.com> References: <19990705095200.B451@freebie.lemis.com> <199907050147.DAA18665@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <199907050147.DAA18665@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>; from Luigi Rizzo on Mon, Jul 05, 1999 at 03:47:15AM +0200 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Monday, 5 July 1999 at 3:47:15 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >>>> I'm thinking of buying a digital camera and was wondering which >>>> ones (if any) use a protocol for downloading pictures that is > > on the subject... catalogs for video and still cameras often say "CCD > with XXX pixels" and at first i thought the count included the three > components (RGB) as _one_ pixel. > > But now i have started seeing (especially for video cameras) pixel > counts that are beyond reasonable video resolution, and that makes > me think that perhaps the the actual resolution is the pixel count > in the Ad divided by 3 ? Shouldn't be. In any case, the resolutions of the cameras are "real" pixels. When I load an image from my camera, it comes at 1280x960. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message