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Ben. Freelance Photographer & Designer as Utter Media and Creative Specialist & Developer for global ESP company.
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The Modern Megapixel Myth
Imagine image 1 to be taken from a 5.7MP camera and image 2 a 12.8MP camera. Olympus or Sony will have you believe that camera 2 is twice (2.25x, to be specific) as good as camera 1, and that the images are twice as good. Because it produces images with twice as many megapixels.
They are right, camera 2 produces twice as many megapixels. But look at the image above. The extra 7.1 megapixels that camera 2 boasts are used to expand the image wide as well as tall. So with twice as many megapixels you are not getting detail and quality 2.25x better than camera 1. If you look at the measurements of the photo from camera 2, it’s only .5x bigger than those of camera 1.
Don’t be a mug, don’t go out and buy a 10MP camera because you think it’s “twice as good” as a 5MP model. The amount of people that boast their megapixels over lesser predecessors is comedic. A camera twice as good as camera one would need to be 22.8MP.
This one’s for free.
