Just Fred wrote:
Several years ago I learned that there's more to a camera than megapixels. A quick Google search will yield results confirming this. Here's a snippet from one such result:
"The quality of a camera is decisively influenced by the sensor quality, not only by its Megapixel resolution. In addition to this, the quality of the lenses that you use play an essential role, and even more when you handle more Megapixels. So you may find a camera or smartphone which, having less Megapixels, but with a better sensor and better lenses, gets clearer images than other cameras with more Megapixels.
"Take into account that the more pixels, the smaller the area size in the sensor to catch the light (the colour) corresponding to every pixel and, therefore, the higher the precision must be in both the sensor and the lenses. So much so that there have been cases with camera models from well known brands whose Megapixel resolutions were reduced when the next models were released.
"Basically, if you use a worse camera and worse lenses with more Megapixels, you will have more worse quality pixels. Or what is the same, if you already have a good camera or smartphone, do not worry if a new model has just been released, your photos are not going to have much less quality."
Not to say that the quality of photos from cellcameras isn't extraordinary. Just a cautionary note that pixels aren't everything.
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