Hi, I took the liberty of taking rpcrowe's images, 1.6x & 1.3x sensors, and resizing both to a 3:2 aspect ratio..eg 6x4 photo. You can see how the smaller señor image on the right crops and narrows the field of view and makes the photo more "magnified".
To me, this begs the following question. If both of these cameras are say 16 megapixels, aren't they packed in more densely into the smaller sensor? So if I resize each photo to 6x4, don't I get the same resolution and aren't I, in fact, truly getting better magnification at 1.6x? I mean on the 6x4 piece of photo paper, I'm getting a larger image and the same resolution with the smaller sensor. Am I not? Somehow, I think the answer is NO, but I can't figure out why that would be.
Thanks!