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Understanding detail loss

Understanding detail loss

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Understanding detail loss

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Robbie: So earlier, Rich, we talked about the impact of compression, and specifically we talked about its effect on color. But compression also affects detail in a shot as well, doesn't it? Richard: Yeah absolutely. You got to realize that when you're shooting video, you got a lot of frames going on. In order to do that, you're not actually using the whole sensor. It's only using a small part of the sensor. So if you are recording this, you know, your chances are even at 1080p, it's going to be at a 2 megapixel image, versus-- Robbie: 19 or 18, 19, 20 megapixels, right? Richard: Yeah so that is going to come in both for things like zooming, but also, realizing that you just don't have as high a resolution source, and that resolution will have an impact on fine details, crispness of edges, little tiny things, plus you add the fact that we're going to have you know, shutter issues here. We're playing with a very limited Shutter rate, and so that Shutter Speed is going to impact…

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