The Megapixel Myth As Fast As Possible
Techquickie
·Techquickie
·2016-05-06
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915 words · ~4 min read
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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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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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