Re: Nikon Vs. Canon, the gloves are off

Joel enlightened us with:
My calculator tells me going from 8mp to 20mp is more like 1.58
gain in print area.

It's interesting calculation! How about sending me $20 then I will
send you back $8 + $1.58 (or I will round it up to $2 <bg>). I just
don't know how you come up with 1.58 gain .. and how about a very
simple math.

I can only get close. He's talking about "gain", which is the increase
in print area, hence it's 12mp. The gain, expressed in the factor of
the original is thus 12 / 8 = 1.5. Not my style of calculation, but
it's the only way I could get close. I'm baffled about that 0.08
though.

Koekje
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