What is the use of having 10 megapixels in a camera if you are not going to enlarge the picture?Is there any use? Does it make 4x6s and 5x7s clearer? I am having trouble getting an answer to this precise question. Please tell me any information you know, as I am in the market for a compact digital camera, and I have been reading up about all the factors that make a good camera, as well as which ones are best. What I have actually learned is that the more unneeded megapixels you have, the noisier the picture will be. Is this true? Most of my pictures will be 4x6s and 5x7s.. and for sure I would never make them any bigger than an 8x10. Any recommendations? It seems to me that you have to pay the price (grainier pictures, etc.) for an ultra compact digital camera, like the sleek Casio Exilim, which I like.
Please no links to Camera Review sites, as I've read them all.
So is there really any use to more mps for a smaller pic.. or are they in the way? Would I be actually better off with a 5mp.. or how many mps do you recommend? I love taking pictures and I am pretty good at it.
WOW, Everyone's answer was so great that I just can't pick one.. so I'll leave that up to others.
Thank you all so much for the educated answers; this has helped me a lot.
Heinz M
It allows cropping a small part of the picture and still get high quality.
If you compose the pictures properly when taking them and don't intend to crop any of them significantly, 4 or 5 MP are plenty.
BTW, for outstanding color quality, check cameras with the Faveon chip. Vastly superior to CCDs or regular CMOS sensors.
eightpack@sbcglobal.net
I am with you. Economics would save you A LOT if you stop at 4-5 MP which is the granularity of the paper, even with cropping!
You can get a killer Casio for 250 at Price club, (great return policy by the way, 1 YR ) which you will probably break or lose, in the mean time.
Plus the technology changes every 18 months.
One factor that no one seems to address is the apature or quality of the light for low light and flash photography, The older casios had bigger lenses, the newer cameras seem to blur all flash and lower light sittuations.
lazy_magnet
10 megapixels would be overkill for the enlargement sizes you want. i think you'd be better off finding a nice 5 mp camera - something with a high quality lens in the focal length range you want, something fast if you need the speed, etc.
"they" say that you need a resolution of 300 pixels per inch for the best quality pictures....anything higher is wasted. that means for 5x7s you would need 300x5in by 300x7 in or 1500x2100 pixels....which comes out to about 3 megapixels. so 5 mp should be more than enough for you; that should give you some flexibility to crop or go a little bigger.
and yeah, you're right about the noise issue...though i've never actually handled a point and shoot with that high a pixel count....
Orignal From: Tips And Tricks: What is the use of having 10 megapixels in a camera if you are not going to enlarge the picture?
No comments:
Post a Comment