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What's the point of 16MP if you're only concerned about scaling to Facebook?
by watty 14y ago
What's the point of 16MP if you're only concerned about scaling to Facebook?
- enraged_camel 14y agoExactly. Megapixels only really matter if you're doing photo-editing or photo-printing. If it's being down-scaled - and it is, if you are uploading it to whatever social media site - then a 5MP iPhone 4 camera will serve you just as well.
- roc 14y agoBut if you're not ready to make the smartphone/data-plan plunge, or your smartphone has a crap camera...
- spartango 14y agoWell, except for the part where high density, low area sensors tend to have more noise and poorer sensitivity. If you were to assume that the iPhone and this device's sensors were the same size (they're probably not), then the iPhone's images would generally turn out better.
- slantyyz 14y agoThey also matter if you do a lot of "digital zoom". While I'm not a fan of digital zoom, people seem to use it.
- jwn 14y agoWhat's the point of 16MP anyway? I've been very happy with my Nikon D40 shooting at 6BP.
- slantyyz 14y agoThere really isn't much of a point to 16MP, but seeing how the camera comes with it, and how people will practically use it (i.e. downsample), there's really nothing you can do but accept that it's there.