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ERIC Number: EJ860257
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008-May
Pages: 2
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 5
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0031-921X
Megapixels and Human Recognition of Resolution
Kreis, Steve
Physics Teacher, v46 n5 p304-305 May 2008
This paper tries to demonstrate that it is not reasonable to judge the quality of pictures that a camera can produce just by the number of pixels that the sensor has. It does so by trying to relate the number of pixels in a picture to the resolution that the eye can see at various distances away from prints of different size.
Descriptors: Photography, Science Instruction, Pictorial Stimuli, Visual Perception, Scientific Principles, Physics
American Association of Physics Teachers. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740. Tel: 301-209-3300; Fax: 301-209-0845; e-mail: pubs@aapt.org; Web site: http://scitation.aip.org/tpt
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
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