Re: Digibeta

In laymen's terms? Unfortunately, there aren't laymen's terms. :) It's all really geeky technical jargon. For more information, this months American Cinematographer Magazine has the details.

The word pixel is two words smashed together: picture & elements.

There are three types of pixels:
1. imaging pixels
2. digital pixels
3. display pixels

Your question is really about how imaging pixels become digital pixels and then how digital pixels become display pixels.

The imaging pixel regardless of what size it is captures light and then converts it into the digital pixel, and that is the part determined inside the camera, and set by the manufacturer.

Display pixels work out roughly like the following when resolving digital pixels:


Standard definition, for digital video, means the display pixels are 720x480.

Widescreen standard definition means the display pixels are 720x406.

High Definition means two display sizes 1280x720 & 1920x1080.

There's more to it, but that's a good start.