| Re: Fuji is about to rain on the Canon parade. It gets a bit confusing. Fuji has some terminology, though.
The sensor has three million photosites: Photosite: The area on a sensor where the light from one point of the image is received. The light entering the photosite passes through one microlens and one colour filter. With a traditional sensor, there is one photodiode beneath the microlens, whereas with Double Honeycomb Super CCD, there are two photodiodes: a primary and a secondary photodiode.
The sensor has six million photodiodes: Photodiode: A single, light-sensing element on a sensor.
Because of the interpolation used (it's a honey-comb structure), the camera produces a 6-million pixel image. Pixel: A final point of picture information in the outputted image. This normally equates to one printed 'dot', or a square of information on the image when displayed on a monitor. |