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it really isn't any secret that you'll probably have to deal with a lot of

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marketing buzzwords whenever you make an Electronics purchase these days I'm

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surprised honestly that they haven't tried to sell us free range motherboards

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and yet Perhaps the most evident area for this is digital cameras where if

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you're looking at a stand load model or even a camera just built into a smartphone the first thing your average

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big box retailer is going to try to get you to notice is how many megapixels it

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has but is this really the best way to evaluate the quality of the photo you'll

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end up getting to answer it would help to know what a megapixel actually is

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it's a measure of resolution that tells you how many solid color dots or pixels

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make up the image 1 megapixel equals a million pixels which may sound like a

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lot but remember that a standard 1080p computer monitor can display a little

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over 2 megapixels and many computer grade digital cameras take pictures

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containing 8 10 or even more megapixels

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the biggest advantage to picking up a camera that can capture more megapixels

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is scaling if you're trying to create large prints of your photos or just

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trying to zoom in on them in your favorite image editing program for

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postprocessing a higher pixel density means that your image will retain more

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sharpness while increasing magnification or blowing it up to stick it on a poster

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because of this the megapixel count mattered a lot in the early days of

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Photography when cameras Hing around a single megapixel were common and models

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that could capture higher resolution images were tremendously helpful if you

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wanted to print anything larger than a 4x6 nowadays though with camera

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supporting many times more megapixels being the norm the biggest concern for

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novice photographers isn't whether or not the picture will scale well rather

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it's things like noise inaccurate color and poor low light performance that are

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still things to watch out for even on cameras that advertise more megapixels

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than the Hubble freaking telescope as the number of pixels in an image has

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nothing to do with those important aspects of picture quality okay we get

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it more megapixels is the modern day equivalent to blast processing but what

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should we pay attention to when we're buying a new camera for starters try and

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find out what kind of image sensor the camera has this is the thing that turns

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the light that passes through the lens into an actual photo generally speaking

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larger sensors are better as the pixels on them will be larger than the smaller

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sensor of the same resolution meaning more light can reach each pixel often

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resulting in a crispy image the largest

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sensors are typically 35 mm you know the

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the like the film ones in Old School cameras and they go down in both size

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and price from there also pay attention to the camera's dynamic range which is a

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measure of how well the camera can capture light and dark portions of an

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image pictures taken on a camera with poor dynamic range will cause bright

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areas to look washed out and dim areas to look like black splotches dynamic

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range is commonly expressed in terms of stops with more stops translating to

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your camera being more versatile in different lighting conditions specs like

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these might be hard to find at a general Consumer Electronic store so this is

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where a little bit of online research can go a long way and of course other

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factors like optical zoom image stabilization and even the speed of your

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camera's CPUs are important to consider as well but just remember that not even

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