Thursday, April 9, 2009

Why megapixels don't matter

Hi,

Sorry people, I haven't been posting for a long time because I don't know what to post. But after some observation, I realised that a potential post could be one about megapixels.

Nowadays. I realise those advetisers and camera makers keep coming up with cameras with higher megapixel and then advertise it till the camera is like some god and then sell it for a high price. Although people who know their stuff will not be decieved, the majority of the population is still blinded by megapixels and just go on with their buy.

To educate those who think megapixels are important:





Look at this image above, this are the sensor sizes of various DSLRs and compact cameras. Sorry for pro-compact people, but the average size of the CCD sensor of compact cameras are in the last line as you can see. So minute.

So what if you give a sensor that is so small 14 megapixels? What can you get? And again, so what if the sensor has little megapixels? Their quality would turn out about the same. Hence, why bother so much about the megapixels a compact camera have?

A picture I found online taken by the nikon d1H, a 2.7 megapixel pro camera in 2001

(http://www.lonestardigital.com/D1H/D1H_Dsc_0979_600x393.jpg)

Does it look like a 2.7 megapixel photo? Can a 14.7 megapixel compact camera do this?

This post should answer your doubts towards megapixels.

Tyy

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