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Beyond Megapixels

Posted by timothy on from the you-mean-gigapixels dept.

TheTechLounge points to this "first of a three-part series of editorial articles examining current digital photography hardware, as well as the author's views of what is to come." It boils down to the excellent point that pixel count alone is not the way to evaluate digital camera capabilities.

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  1. Tell that to the average person... by MacFury · · Score: 5, Funny
    I work in retail and occasionally sell digital cameras. People come in talking about how bad they want an 8 megapixel camera. When I ask them why they want 8 megapixels they respond usually, "because it's better than 5 megapixels" the they proceed to tell me it's going to make their 4x6 prints really nice...

    I hate people

  2. Megapixels aren't the end... by AtariDatacenter · · Score: 3, Funny

    I personally am waiting for a good Megavoxel camera. If you think pixels are good, imagine the images that can be rendered with voxels! It is incredible! ;)

  3. Re:The Megapixel illusion by lorian69 · · Score: 5, Funny
    With a high megapixel camera I can take a picture of a statue from far away, get home and crap 3/4 of the picture out and still be left with a picture that's high quality enough for a print.
    I believe you'll find that images retain their quality much more effectively when they're not ingested.
  4. Re:I'm ambivalent by Animats · · Score: 2, Funny
    First, what is this "prosumer" thing?

    Wedding photographers.

  5. Re:Why were MP ever such a big deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    What? I keep getting told SIZE does MATTER! Guess I can throw those megapixel enlargements pills down the drain.

  6. Re:Professional Printers.... by jrumney · · Score: 2, Funny
    Not to be a troll... but professional prints never come from a laser printer...and they cost lots more than 10,000

    I have no idea what they cost, I was just guessing a minimum, then I put a + to indicate it was more. But they do use lasers. From photobox.co.uk:

    For those that are technically minded, here is some information about our print devices and paper types. For small format work (up to 10"x15") we print on a number of FujiFilm Frontier 370 and 390 printers. These work by exposing red, green and blue laser light onto FujiFilm Crystal Archive photographic paper at 300 DPI (dots per inch). The fade resistance of the prints is rated at 150 years.

    For large format work we use a Polielectronica Laserlab. This is a world-class laser-based photographic device which prints onto Agfa Professional digital photographic paper at 254 DPI. The fade resistance of the prints is also rated at 150 years.