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I'm happy that the new metric is sensor size. A bit of an upgrade in metric that mildly correlates to picture quality.


That's good as long as they quote the sensor size in millimetres for the width and height (e.g. 36 mm × 24 mm "full frame").

What is atrocious is the inch format - e.g. 1 inch sensor, 1/2.2" (decimal and fraction!). It somehow refers to the diagonal length of the vacuum tube and not even the active image area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_sensor_format#Table_of_s... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_camera_tube#Size




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