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The Megapixel Myth
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A fact born out by Sony's 10MP sensor that seams to be returning consistently poor results in trials. Or indeed Mamiya’s 22MP sensor that has quality issues all over the place. Fuji's tricky twin 6MP sensor arrangement on the other hand, is renowned for having the best dynamic range and colour balance in the business. I still want a 1DS MK2N though :-)
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A smart bomb is only as clever as the idiot that tells it what to do……
That guy's site is gr8! Lol. He has like 50 pages on photography....fun, but useless for me. (I've been reading them for the past oooo, 30 mins)
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"Resolution has little to do with image quality". Well, it depends. Apart from anything else it depends very much on what you're going to do with your images. If you're only going to view them on a laptop at 1024x768, then an image from a 3 megapixel camera will probably look just as good as one from a 10 megapixel camera, other things being equal.
If you want to blow up sections of your image into large prints then it's going to matter a whole darn lot how much resolution you captured. Even then it depends how the prints will be viewed. Will you be holding them in your hand or viewing them from 30 feet away?
What does get me really, really upset is when I see a manufacturer pushing their latest uber-megapixel camera, and when you look at the details it's got some cheap plastic lens and rubbish metering. My first digital camera was a 3 megapixel Minolta Dimage which I bought over all the competition for its 12 element glass lens. I've used it to take photos I'm happier with than I used to get out of my old 35mm Nikon.
If you want to blow up sections of your image into large prints then it's going to matter a whole darn lot how much resolution you captured. Even then it depends how the prints will be viewed. Will you be holding them in your hand or viewing them from 30 feet away?
What does get me really, really upset is when I see a manufacturer pushing their latest uber-megapixel camera, and when you look at the details it's got some cheap plastic lens and rubbish metering. My first digital camera was a 3 megapixel Minolta Dimage which I bought over all the competition for its 12 element glass lens. I've used it to take photos I'm happier with than I used to get out of my old 35mm Nikon.
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Dont take anything that Ken Rockwell says to seriously, a lot of his stuff can be very misleading
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I want something good to die for
To make it beautiful to live.
D70s w/18-70, 70-300
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QUOTE .. Resolution has little to do with image quality. Color and tone are far more important technically. Even Consumer Reports in their November 2002 issue noted some lower resolution digital cameras made better images than some higher resolution ones.
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.. pixelate