On 1/24/08, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thibouille wrote: > > >They advertise 230.000 but it seems Pentax doesn't count the same way > >as others so we'll have to wait for reviews or first hand experience > >to know exactly. > > There's been a bit of controversy with counting pixels on LCD's because > they're like sensors in that each point is either red, green or blue. > To display a single color pixel from an image file you use three pixels > on the rear-panel LCD. > > So when you give the pixel count of your rear-panel LCD, do you specify > the number of hardware pixels in the display itself, or the number of > image pixels that get displayed? The former number is much larger than > the latter so that's the one the marketing guys gravitate towards :) >
The issue is that it's normally 3 dots per pixel with each dot being an individual colour, and the display is 230k dots. But the fine print says 3 pixels per dot for some reason, leading some to conclude that those are full colour dots. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
