By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close

Forums - General - The megapixels race, do we need it?

Galaki on 05 September 2008

With digital cameras going higher and higher in pixels nowaday, it's quite confusing for us to actually distinguish the difference and decide whether the price justify the pixels count.

For example,

• 3648 x 2736 (10M)
• 2592 x 1944 (5M)
• 2048 x 1536 (3M)

Now, we know an image quality can differ widely with the same number of pixels.

That means, an image at 5M could be worse than 3M.

We also know that, 1080p is equavalent to 1920×1080 resolution. So, an HD image is really somewhere close to 2.5 megapixels.

3M cameras were widely common years ago, (at lest 5?)

For those with huge monitors, 5M probably could be used for background, but 10M?

Do we really need the 10M?



Pre-order limited edition Blue Slime Condoms

Around the Network
kergeten on 05 September 2008

Yes we do and it will only go higher, plus there's nothing like cropping a small part of a picture and that crop is crystal clear, plus if there's nothing to lose why not go higher and higher?



TWRoO on 05 September 2008

For digital cameras for your average person.... the pixels are not as important as the lens and the features like vibration control.

4 Megapixels is as high as you need unless you are:

1. Printing the picture bigger than A4 size
2. Really need to zoom in a lot on your photos and print them normal size.


If you are a proffessional then the lens and optical zoom are still more important than the pixels.... but higher pixels might be needed becaue you are more likely to be printing bigger pictures or cropping out tiny bits.



Tispower1 on 05 September 2008

That said, the lens in a camera makes a heck of a difference. My phone has a 5 MP camera, but it's pictures pale in comparison to a 5 MP digital camera.

That said, the pics with my dad's 10 MP look amazing :D



akuma587 on 05 September 2008

Eventually we won't, but yes, we need those megapixels for now.

Hey! You stole my megahertz!!!1



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

Around the Network
TWRoO on 05 September 2008

The only reason standard film cameras are still around in the proffessional world (apart from some weird kind of nostalgia) are because sometimes you need to blow up images to huge proportions, and negatives can be blown up to whatever size you want (within the parameters of whatever you are printing on)



Galaki on 05 September 2008

You can still buy negatives?



Pre-order limited edition Blue Slime Condoms