> Why does the industry use things like 12m pixels to describe resolution? I found it is very difficult to translate it into maximum width and height. Because

> Why does the industry use things like 12m pixels to describe resolution? I found it is very difficult to translate it into maximum width and height. Because to the average consumer, 12MP is easier to understand compared to 4000x3000px. Megapixel is cool sounding technobabble, not unlike gigaflop. It's like "in less than 12 parsecs", the average person doesn't understand, but they know that 12 is less than 13 and greater than 11.