Re: How do cameras with tiny diameter lenses offer high resolution?
Bayer resolution is nowhere near as important as you seem to think (the human eye is less sensitive to colour than spacial changes). Worst case the effect is about 1.6x the number of raw pixels for the same spacial resolution.
I’ve been through the arguments before many times. By the time DSLRs reached 16.7M pixels (in the form of the old Cannon 1Ds mk II) then it became very hard to distinguish the difference. At between 20-24M pixels they are pretty much identical, with the DSLR tending to edge it in terms of contrast and sharpness. At 21M pixels I’ve made A2 prints that were sharper and more detailed than anything I’ve printed onto A4 from film. You can buy 50M pixel DSLRs these days.
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