Thread: N9 [Shipping]: It's finally here [for some]!
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jalyst is offline jalyst
2011-10-04 , 23:13
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#8541
Originally Posted by Vaskinn View Post
That does actually make sense. If you increase the number of pixels on the sensor, without increasing the size, the pixels will be smaller and will get less light each. (Which is why a good 5mpixel camera may take better looking fotos than a poor 10mpixel one). Having a bigger aperture will compensate by letting more light hit each pixel.

(and the N9 has a bigger aperture)
Interesting, so they've bumped to 8mp w/o increasing the overall size of the sensor?
Hence smaller pixels*, hence they need to compensate for that with a larger aperture.
I wonder why they didn't increase the sensor size "&" the aperture, space contraints?

*is that even possible?
Last edited by jalyst; 2011-10-04 at 23:31.