Truth about Megapixels...
Attention consumers, stop listening to digital camera salespeople, better digital photos involves more than just who has the most megapixels!
Better digital photography involves more than just having a camera with a bunch of megapixels, although you wouldn't know that listening to digital camera salespeople.
It doesn't matter whether you're looking at a Canon or Nikon digital SLR, a Panasonic, Fuji, or Sony prosumer, or any of the hundred compact models. The principles on megapixels hold true for all of them.
Do any of these statements sound familiar?
If you want the best digital camera, you need to get the one with the most megapixels.
(Not true. The quality of the lens and camera are often more important.)
Since this Nikon has more megapixels than that Canon, it will take sharper photographs.
(Again, not true. The clarity of the final photograph has more to do with shutter speed and using a tripod.)
All megapixels are the same. It doesn't matter if you're looking at a Canon or a "Pete's Digital Camera & Toaster" made in Cuba. (Certainly not true- All pixels result from the level of technology of the manufacturer's image sensor produced in the digital camera. )
More megapixels do not automatically equate to sharper or better photographs. In addition to the number of megapixels, the quality of the megapixels matter as well, that is where the image sensor comes into play.
Megapixels is just one factor in creating better digital photography. And, you shouldn't look at it as the main benefit to buying this camera or that camera; but rather consider it along with other digital camera features. How fast or slow the camera's shutter speed can be set, using a tripod, being able to manually set the white-balance control, and having pre-programmed modes to aid in tricky lighting situations are all important factors in achieving better digital photography.
Don't get the idea that megapixels are bad, or irrelevant, this is not true either. There is one specific area where more megapixels will create better digital photography results.
If everything else is the same, more megapixels will provide greater flexibility to crop a photograph and still wind up with a sharp clear photo.
Many photos will have something showing that you don't want to print. That is the main advantage a large megapixel camera provides, over their smaller-megapixel competition. If you take the original photograph with 7 megapixels and crop out 1/3, there will be plenty left to make a quality enlargement.
If, however, you begin with a 3 megapixel camera, you will barely have enough for a 4x6 print, after losing 1/3 of the megapixels to cropping. The result of printing a photograph having too few pixels is a low-quality rough looking pixelated image... definitely NOT what you're going for when creating better digital photography!
Better digital photography involves more than just having a camera with a bunch of megapixels, although you wouldn't know that listening to digital camera salespeople.
It doesn't matter whether you're looking at a Canon or Nikon digital SLR, a Panasonic, Fuji, or Sony prosumer, or any of the hundred compact models. The principles on megapixels hold true for all of them.
Do any of these statements sound familiar?
If you want the best digital camera, you need to get the one with the most megapixels.
(Not true. The quality of the lens and camera are often more important.)
Since this Nikon has more megapixels than that Canon, it will take sharper photographs.
(Again, not true. The clarity of the final photograph has more to do with shutter speed and using a tripod.)
All megapixels are the same. It doesn't matter if you're looking at a Canon or a "Pete's Digital Camera & Toaster" made in Cuba. (Certainly not true- All pixels result from the level of technology of the manufacturer's image sensor produced in the digital camera. )
More megapixels do not automatically equate to sharper or better photographs. In addition to the number of megapixels, the quality of the megapixels matter as well, that is where the image sensor comes into play.
Megapixels is just one factor in creating better digital photography. And, you shouldn't look at it as the main benefit to buying this camera or that camera; but rather consider it along with other digital camera features. How fast or slow the camera's shutter speed can be set, using a tripod, being able to manually set the white-balance control, and having pre-programmed modes to aid in tricky lighting situations are all important factors in achieving better digital photography.
Don't get the idea that megapixels are bad, or irrelevant, this is not true either. There is one specific area where more megapixels will create better digital photography results.
If everything else is the same, more megapixels will provide greater flexibility to crop a photograph and still wind up with a sharp clear photo.
Many photos will have something showing that you don't want to print. That is the main advantage a large megapixel camera provides, over their smaller-megapixel competition. If you take the original photograph with 7 megapixels and crop out 1/3, there will be plenty left to make a quality enlargement.
If, however, you begin with a 3 megapixel camera, you will barely have enough for a 4x6 print, after losing 1/3 of the megapixels to cropping. The result of printing a photograph having too few pixels is a low-quality rough looking pixelated image... definitely NOT what you're going for when creating better digital photography!
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