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Today I learned a one-inch camera sensor isn’t one inch — not even diagonally.
Even if you measure it like a TV, it’s just over half an inch. Misleading much? In fact, you’d need an APS-C or larger sensor to stretch to an inch diagonally — and only full-frame and medium format sensors are more than an inch wide.
Making sensor sizes less misleading
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