For CRT monitors resolution is a measure of how many spots on a screen are addressable by software. Each addressable location is called a pixel. For LCD monitors the number of pixels on the screen is either called resolution or pixel pitch. CRT monitors are built to handle several resolutions while an LCD monitor uses only one resolution called the native resolution.
- VGA (Video Graphics Array) supports up to 640 x 480.
- SVGA (Super VGA) supports up to 800 x 600.
- XGA (eXtended Graphics Array) supports up to 1024 x 768.
- SXGA (Super XGA) supports a resolution up to 1280 x 1024 and was the very first resolution standard to use a 5:4 ratio.
- SXGA+ is a variation of SXGA. It supports a resolution of 1400 x 1050.
- WSXGA+ (Wide SXGA+) uses a resolution of 1680 x 1050
- UXGA (Ultra XGA) supports up to 1600 x 1200.
- WUXGA (Wide UXGA) supports up to 1920 x 1200.
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Which would appear sharper to the human eye a 26″ LCD with a pixel pitch of .02865 at 1920×1200 native or a 24″ LCD with a pixel pitch of .27 at 1920×1200 native.
How would this be determined for other instances, ie. pixel pitch verses screen size versus native resolution?
Thank you
Thank you for being honest regarding pixel pitch and the effect it has on final images. My Nikon D40 creats much more revealing images than the Nikon D80. The D40 is a 6.1 mp camera with 8 micron pixels using the same chip employed by the discontinued D70. The D80 employes a 10.1 mp chip with 5.4 micron pixels. The lack of shadow detail as well as highlight burnout is obvious when compared to the D40 or D70 images . It is, in my opinion, dishonest for camera manufacturers not to mention the importance of pixel pitch while proliferating cameras that have twice the number of pixels that are half the size and half the cost to produce.