I think that there are uninformed consumers out there who think that the ONLY thing that matters about a camera is how many megapixels it has. (Not the lens quality, not the high ISO ability, not usability things like fast focusing, just the megapixels.)
Then there are these people online, who want to sound sophisticated, so they spin the opposite story that more pixels make the image quality WORSE.
Regarding resolution, the more pixels the camera has, the more real resolution should be recorded in the final image. This may be subject to diminishing returns. Doubling the number of pixels may not double the resolution. It may only increase by 90%. It might only increase by 20% if the lens is really bad or is already stopped down way beyond the diffraction limit. But it will always record more data and more resolution.
Nov 05, 2012 at 03:17 PM
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