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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: Chris Baldwin on 28/09/2009 10:30:03
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Chris Baldwin asked the Naked Scientists:
Hello again,
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I was admiring a fine photo a colleague of mine had taken, and a question sprung to mind. Digital cameras are measured in megapixels - my question is how many megapixels would be needed for a picture to be completely "lifelike". Or, another angle to this would be, how many megapixels do we see in?
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Thanks, and keep up the fantastic podcasts (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/)!
Chris
What do you think?
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This is a very subjective question...
What is the properties/attributes of "life like"?
TQ
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The resolution of the human eye would be about 576 megapixels (according to http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html).
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Now does anyone know the highest resolution from a camera. The ordinance survey cameras are 120 megapixels, still a long way off 576.