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Old 09-11-2018, 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by bojan View Post
JA, total number of photons delivered to the sensor (as a whole) is irrelevant for exposure time etc... what is relevant is photon flux per pixel (or flux per mm^2) and that will be the same for the same lens (including f/ number).


ONLY difference with different sensor size will be the field of view.
Well I think I kind of got that , since I emphasised for the sake of completeness virtually exactly that earlier, when I said:

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It should be noted however: that the light per unit area (of sensor), and hence the exposure, on both sensors will/can be the same, BUT the Total light delivered to the sensor, if you could count the number of photons delivered to the sensor, will NOT be.
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Last edited by JA; 09-11-2018 at 04:20 PM.
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