it really isn't any secret that you'll probably have to deal with a lot of
marketing buzzwords whenever you make an Electronics purchase these days I'm
surprised honestly that they haven't tried to sell us free range motherboards
and yet Perhaps the most evident area for this is digital cameras where if
you're looking at a stand load model or even a camera just built into a smartphone the first thing your average
big box retailer is going to try to get you to notice is how many megapixels it
has but is this really the best way to evaluate the quality of the photo you'll
end up getting to answer it would help to know what a megapixel actually is
it's a measure of resolution that tells you how many solid color dots or pixels
make up the image 1 megapixel equals a million pixels which may sound like a
lot but remember that a standard 1080p computer monitor can display a little
over 2 megapixels and many computer grade digital cameras take pictures
containing 8 10 or even more megapixels
the biggest advantage to picking up a camera that can capture more megapixels
is scaling if you're trying to create large prints of your photos or just
trying to zoom in on them in your favorite image editing program for
postprocessing a higher pixel density means that your image will retain more
sharpness while increasing magnification or blowing it up to stick it on a poster
because of this the megapixel count mattered a lot in the early days of
Photography when cameras Hing around a single megapixel were common and models
that could capture higher resolution images were tremendously helpful if you
wanted to print anything larger than a 4x6 nowadays though with camera
supporting many times more megapixels being the norm the biggest concern for
novice photographers isn't whether or not the picture will scale well rather
it's things like noise inaccurate color and poor low light performance that are
still things to watch out for even on cameras that advertise more megapixels
than the Hubble freaking telescope as the number of pixels in an image has
nothing to do with those important aspects of picture quality okay we get
it more megapixels is the modern day equivalent to blast processing but what
should we pay attention to when we're buying a new camera for starters try and
find out what kind of image sensor the camera has this is the thing that turns
the light that passes through the lens into an actual photo generally speaking
larger sensors are better as the pixels on them will be larger than the smaller
sensor of the same resolution meaning more light can reach each pixel often
resulting in a crispy image the largest
sensors are typically 35 mm you know the
the like the film ones in Old School cameras and they go down in both size
and price from there also pay attention to the camera's dynamic range which is a
measure of how well the camera can capture light and dark portions of an
image pictures taken on a camera with poor dynamic range will cause bright
areas to look washed out and dim areas to look like black splotches dynamic
range is commonly expressed in terms of stops with more stops translating to
your camera being more versatile in different lighting conditions specs like
these might be hard to find at a general Consumer Electronic store so this is
where a little bit of online research can go a long way and of course other
factors like optical zoom image stabilization and even the speed of your
camera's CPUs are important to consider as well but just remember that not even
the most expensive DSLR out there will make your horrible mirror selfies look
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