wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

Yes, but which magnification. Resizzing up? Resizzing down? Software differences? Pixel peeping? Since the higher pixel count sensor is showing signs of pixlation sooner, via pixel peeping, than the sensor with less pixels, this says it is the differences between software and the image's settings for output.

bcrawf

If by 'resizing' you mean enlarging, then of course that is the answer (to making pixellation visible). Pixel count and pixel density are two different things. The higher the pixel density, the less visible pixellation is at any given degree of image enlargement.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

A pixel or a group of pixel regardless of origin, digital painting, camera or scanner capture are the same thing. The density of pixels does not change the nature of a pixel.

When magnified regardless of reason pixelization happens.

You confuse artifacts created by modifications or compression with pixels. These (pixels) do not change their nature regardless of the data they display.

selmslie Loc: Fernandina Beach, FL, USA

Does that mean you didn’t understand the title of the thread? That was a clue.

bcrawf

We cannot tell what you are responding to. I will note that you are misconstruing the term 'pixellation', which means visibility of pixels (in a specified viewing), not the existence of pixels.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

By software, I can take a 24mp image and produce a 24 pixel image or a 36mp image from it. That has nothing to do with the sensor or actual sensor pixel size. Each camera manufacturer has software that will size an image that is not RAW. What each camera manufacture sets as their default JPEG can be very different. I have mine set to the very finest JPEG setting. The defualt setting for my camera's JPEG will show pixelation long before my set JPEG image setting even though it is from the same camera and sensor. That has to do with software and how the images are reported out. And if you go into your camera settings or manual, you will see a chart of image sizing. The smaller the xx by xx for the image, the faster your camera operates and the smaller the image is in megapixels on your chip. That is why some of us want the biggest and fastest (300mbs and up) chip we can afford so we can shoot the largest JPEG with our RAW image and not slow our cameras down.

So there are other ways, other that pixel peeping, that will affect pixelation of a person's image.

BobHartung Loc: Bettendorf, IA

f8lee Loc: New Mexico

I believe it's important to differentiate what a picture element ("pixel") is when referring to the sensor and then referring to the final image.

On the sensor, each individual photo site can be considered a pixel (perhaps not strictly speaking, but that's what most folks think) - so a sensor with a matrix of 4000x6000 photo sites is a 24MP sensor. But of course, except in the case of a Foveon or Leica monochrome chip, each of those photo sites is only recording the amount of a particular color of light that passes through the R, G or B filter placed above it. And as raw data, this is not an image at all - this very concept is the source of a lot of misinformation and confusion in these pages.

A pixel in the final image is the result of the blending together of data from adjacent photo site readings - a process typically called de-mosaicing. The final color of pixel 1:1 in the final image depends on the readings of the photo sites (again, each only reading one color of light) and the software doing the task. It is for this reason that ACR, for example, can ascertain a different shade of blue than Capture One or the camera manufacturer's own software.

With this in mind, remember that one major difference between (most) Fuji digital cameras and all the others is the pattern of R-G-B filters that is overlaid on the photo sites. The Trans-X chips use a different pattern (you can look it up to see the difference). But my point is, it may well be that differential that creates the OPs original observation - above and beyond pixel pitch etc. when comparing the Fuji to the other brands, even with the same MP count.

Shutterbug57

The chip type is probably the answer.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

Although it might not be the reason or total reason, it has to contribute at the least. The algorithms for the Bayer pattern (50% green 25% both red and blue) versus the algorithms for the X-Trans sensor pattern (56% green, 22% red and blue) cannot possibly be the same and more than likely will produce a different JPEG (smaller) for the same amount of processing time and power.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

Entered in error.