Does using a camera with a high megapixel count increase the quality of images taken?
>>2845984
It depends on how you define quality, and depends on your other equipment, and your technique.
It won't automatically improve anything, but it will raise the ceiling for what you are capable of producing by a small amount.
>>2845988
>It depends on how you define quality, and depends on your other equipment, and your technique.
all else being equal, ofc
>>2845984
retard detected.
>>2845994
Everything else being equal doesn't help. If the shutter speed is even a little bit too slow, then hand shake or motion blur will remove the resolution advantage. If the lens is not sharp enough, it will remove the resolution advantage. If the light is bland and bad and therefore there are no fine details to pick up because there are no shadows or gradients, then the resolution advantage will be removed. If the photo is of something where detail isn't important, then the high resolution isn't an advantage at all. If the light is low and you need a high ISO, the noise may remove the high resolution advantage.
If you need extremely high resolution, and shape your entire technique and kit around achieving that resolution, and a lower MP camera doesn't get you what you need, then a higher MP count camera may improve the reproducible size of your images. If you don't, or you don't, and you don't, then, no, it will just give you bigger larger files.
Usually yes, more megapixels can produce a higher quality image.
However, the more megapixels you have, the harder it is to utilize that potential for quality.
A good example is my 12mp camera with a full size sensor, records images with much more detail than my phone, which has 24mp, but between the soft lens and heavy noise reduction, doesn't keep up.
As a rule of thumb, I would say this: don't worry about it, just take pictures with whatever camera you can afford and don't concern yourself with such things.
>>2845984
Only up to 4 times the screen resolution. (to cancel out the Bayer filter).
For example: 31.6MP for a UHD screen.
Anything more is only beneficial when cropping or fixing distortion.
megapickles is a meme
But of course! Only a full frame 50MP camera can truly capture the moment you always wanted to see! Now here I have a great recommendation for a few cameras (might need a backup body or 6), lenses, tripods, flashes, bags, extra batteries, dildos, filters and much more which will help you with your sh-amazing shots!
Also while you're at it, could you donate to my growing family? They just keep coming out of my wife and I don't know how to stop it
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>>2846120
kek
>>2846120
>I don't know how to stop it
you insert you pee-pee into your wifes poo-poo and that should do it
>>2846117
so 8 Mpix for 1080p and 32Mpix for 4K
>>2846120
whaaat? what are you talking about!? i always shoot in 6 megapixel jpeg mode with my nikon d3300, because that camera is incapable of taking a bad photo, in fact you should always shoot in six megapickle mode beccause raw is an amateur format!
>>2845984
no, megapickles is a gimmick that the camera companies use to market to the consumers, thats why low end beginner point and shoots have more megapickles than some high end dslr's because photographers dont give a shit about megapixels
you dont need any more than 12 megapixels
>m-muh megapickles
>muh r-resolution
kek, you digibabbies and your digiproblems
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Increases how many pixels you capture
It depends on what you're doing with the pictures, how often you crop your shots to taste if you plan on doing large prints, if you have quality lenses that can utilise their resolving power at the resolution etc
Some cons of high pixel counts include large file size, low dynamic range and light sensitivity as a result of each pixel having to be smaller, normies insisting you don't need a big fancy camera because they heard about something called the megapixel war
There's a workaround for most of those things though. You can even compensate for pixels by making a composite and stitching. There's even that Lumix phone with 40mp and it samples the image down to a still-beautiful, managable size
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>>2848211
>needing 10x10cm of film to hold that much detail
>>2848456
But that is a lot of detail.
Film is still useful as an archival medium. It's a physical image that doesn't need decoding to view.
Data encoding standards come and go, but the principles of optics don't change.
