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Old 02-18-2009, 08:56 PM
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Re: Horrible Shutter lag

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Originally Posted by ccrabbe View Post
The article I linked to explained that by cramming more pixels onto a similarly-sized sensor, the sensor-size for each pixel is smaller, and therefore absorbs less light per unit of time - so you need to have the sensor exposed longer to get the same detail in a photo than you do when there's less pixels on it.

I don't have any idea what the sensor size is on the phone you're comparing it to, but I bet the number of pixels on it was 1.2MP at best... so it probably had a much much much lower exposure time.
thank goodness, finally someone else approaching it from the digital photography angle.
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