Tech Note for Nerds

From The Frame Grab Tutorial: http://tvcrit3.tvcrit.com/content/view/58/102/.


The 640x480 rule of thumb does not apply to images you take with your digital camera. For today's digital still cameras, 640x480 would be low resolution. Remember: images grabbed from video will never look as good as images shot with a still digital camera.

For example, even modest, low-cost digital cameras typically offer the following higher resolutions:

With so many more dots to work with, an image recorded at 2,048x1,526 will be about ten times sharper than a 640x480 image.


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