If Reddit is the font page of the internet, imgur is its image stream.

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Digital systems, which process pixels one at a time, have to translate the two-dimensional image into a one-dimensional stream of data.

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This 6-megapixel data stream oversamples the target image by 3x resulting in video as sharp as that of the high-end multi-sensor video cameras used in television studios.

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We noticed a minor amount of lag with the live video stream but the controls (shutter, zoom, flash, timer, image size) were quite responsive.

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