Questions tagged [megapixels]

A megapixel (MP or Mpx) is one million pixels, and is a term used not only for the number of pixels in an image, but to express the number of image sensor elements of digital cameras or the number of display elements of digital displays.

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Megapixel race unnecessary?

Have we reached the point where where the megapixel race is more about the race, of having more then the other guy, than about image quality? Only a few years ago 6MP was touted as the optimum number of MP that you needed to take really good…

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asked Apr 24 '12 at 02:36

Taylor Huston

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Why would a more expensive camera have lower megapixels?

Recently, I was on the Panasonic website and came across this camera. When looking at it I noticed it had 12.1 megapixels, which is really low compared to cheaper cameras. So why is the megapixels so low on this camera and what does lowering the…

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asked Oct 28 '15 at 03:16

Ethan

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Size of printed photo

I have a nikon d3100 , A friend of mine needs a headshot for a billboard.I need to know if my camera can take a pic big enough (mp) I do have a 50mm lens I can use and plan to use a tripod and plan on using RAW.

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asked Mar 23 '18 at 11:47

kelly

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Does the panasonic dmc-lz40 take better pictures than the samsung wb35 camera?

I currently have the Samsung WB35f camera and it takes really great pictures and I recently changed the settings so the image quality was at super fine and they turned out better. My plan is too upgrade to Panasonic dmc-lz40 camera. The dmc-lz40 has…

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asked Oct 27 '15 at 23:40

Ethan

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Why 1 megapixel is always 1024×1024?

A CCD can be square one or rectangular. And its size is represented by M×N. So for 1 megapixel there are 1024×1024 pixels. If it's square or rectangular it will be some multiple of this number. I want to know why this particular number and why we…

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asked Mar 29 '18 at 06:57