Originally posted by Couscousdelight Are you sure the screen is a VGA (640x480) ?
The screen have 921 000 pixels, 640x480 = 307 200pixels; they are 600 000pixels missing...
Or maybe it's 307 000px/color, RGB)
you are correct, they of course count each R, G, and B dot in their 'pixel' count. Marketing folks like bigger numbers
Originally posted by Schraubstock Hi
Please tell me where I am wrong here; I have always considered a 4times enlargement on my K-5 screen to be pretty exactly a 100% percent representation.
I have come to this conclusion this way:
When I import a file (a picture of a test chart) straight from the SD Card into my computer, open up this file in PhtoShop and view it at 100%, then put up this very file on the camera screen and enlarge it there until I get pretty well the same crop dimensions as displayed on the computer I always finish up at a 4x value on the cam. The test chart picture does allow for pretty good alignment comparison.
'100%' refers to where one pixel in the sensor corresponds exactly to one pixel on your screen (whichever screen you're looking at; camera or computer). Since your computer screen shows a larger number of pixels than your camera's small display, zooming the camera until it matches the same crop area as your computer screen doesn't put the camera screen at a 100% view.
for example, if your computer screen has a resolution of 1600x1200, then at a 100% view you can view an area of the image that is about 1600x1200 pixels. if you were to zoom to have the same area viewable on your camera's display, you would be looking at 1600x1200 pixels of the image, but on a 640x480 screen, so each pixel on your screen would actually be representing 2.5 pixels of your picture, and you would have to zoom in another 2.5x to get your camera to be at '100%'