> From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> "Although the Kodak chip has a total of more than eight megapixels (or,
> more exactly, photosites interpolated into pixels), the exact number of
> those which end up within the recorded image is 7,998,272. I'm
> referring to
> this number as 7.62 MP: while "mega" means in science one million, in
> computer applications it traditionally denotes the factor 220, or
> 1,048,576, a difference of almost 5%.
Bunk. Compare apples with apples. All the camera manufacturers use ISO
standard megapixels, meaning one million.
2^20 is more properly referred to as "mebipixels". It's a reasonable
measurement unit for solid-state memory ONLY, and is increasingly
uncommon in disk capacities and other uses.
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