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- noun A single
sensor element of anarray of sensors, such as in a charge-coupled device.
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Examples
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Perhaps not “hype” coo sensel, but cool in a long term sense —
Microsoft’s Vista Problem, by the Numbers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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But if she suspected that the sensel of her class would now accord her the honor of performing against him, she was mistaken.
The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984
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Fujifilm's system provides a seemingly simple solution - masking-off half of a sensel means it only receives light from one side of the lens.
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This might be one byte per sensel that the processor interpolates into pixels.
Netvouz - new bookmarks thgood 2010
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This might be sensel data with two bytes per sensel that the processor interpolates into pixels.
Netvouz - new bookmarks thgood 2010
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If you need the DOF afforded by very small apertures, are you always better off with a D3 than a D3x -- or is the effective resolution limited more generally, by the laws of optical physics, rather than by sensel pitch?
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