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Old 21-02-2016, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by glend View Post
Can't find any mention of the size of each of those many pixels. In past model releases, when trying to pack ever more pixels into a standard sensor size (whether APS-C or Full Frame) they are of course constrained by the physical dimensions of the sensor, so they work to make each pixel ever smaller to crow about the increase in pixel numbers. I am not sure this is great news to those that might prefer the larger pixel sizes in past models.
A little arithmetic shows that the pixel pitch is around 4.9 um - comparable to the sensors in many popular astro cameras.

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