Friday, July 19, 2013

41 Megapixels Are Really About Zoom

Vintage cameras, not for sale
Vintage cameras, not for sale (Photo credit: Soumyadeep Paul)
A smartphone is a wonderful thing, except it has a lousy battery. A smartphone camera is a wonderful thing - I don't use a real camera anymore - but the zoom on it is ridiculously poor. The photo quality is fine with eight megapixels. Enter 41 megapixels. Are photos now going to be five times sharper? Maybe, maybe not. But I think what is more likely is photos of objects five times as far are going to be just as good. And I like that idea.
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