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When did the megapixels in digital cameras equal 35mm film?

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Today's high-end full-frame digital cameras have 35mm sensors which is the size of a conventional 35mm film. These two technologies (digital and analog) are fundamentally different but at the end of the day, the images produced are consumed alike. read more

But in my opinion digital surpassed 35mm film no later than 2002, when the Canon EOS 1Ds was released. 35mm film produces shots of an equivalent of something around 6 to 8 megapixels. There are people who believe the magic number is 21 Megapixels, but that’s definitely bullshit. read more

Foveon digital cameras record all 3 colours per pixel, like film, but their sensors have lower resolution as of now. As a counter note, the 24 bits of colour from a film scanner, while better than the 8 to 12 bits per sample of a bayer-interpolated digital camera, is nowhere near near 3 times as good as some pretend. read more

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