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I hope not - while megapixels alone aren't sufficient to produce a great photo, they are a necessary component. I don't mind if the industry pauses for a while
by kylec 15y ago
I hope not - while megapixels alone aren't sufficient to produce a great photo, they are a necessary component. I don't mind if the industry pauses for a while to increase the image quality through other means, but eventually the pixel count will become the bottleneck again if it's not increased.
- tjr 15y agoI'm still using an ancient 12 megapixel camera, and I have yet to encounter a situation where I was unable to produce a great photo due to an insufficient megapixel count.
- dialtone 15y agoFirst you need to resolve the other bottlenecks or more megapixels will only make the inadequacy of the lenses more obvious. The lesson to learn here is that the camera needs to grow more organically, it's useless to grow megapixels so much without improving lenses or the size of the sensor, instead, as the article states, it makes it _worse_. Like megahertz, megapixel is a nice single number that many customers associated with performance but it's pretty far from truth. A more detailed sensor will only see what the lenses let go through and a smaller sensor will become that much less sensitive. It is cheaper however.