Megapixels, zoom, shutter speed, small cameras, big cameras, Canon, Sony, Nikon, Fuji … the variety of camera choices seems unending. John Herron, a wildlife ecologist and amateur photographer, will sort through the terminology and 'focus' on the features that are important for nature ...
Image resolution and megapixels are directly proportional—the more megapixels an image or digital video carries, the higher the screen resolution because you’re capturing more image information. Nonetheless, you can’t fully rely on how many pixels your camera can shoot for higher resolution. ...
You might look at the range of smartphones on offer and wonder, ‘Is a 12-megapixel camera good enough? What’s the highest megapixel camera phone’ or you might be wondering ‘How many megapixels do I need for a good picture’. In this article we will try and answer those ...
The answer may lie in the megapixels. When I consider that my current iPhone has far more megapixels than my first DSLR did, it’s an easy illustration of the shifting parameters. But with the number of megapixels going higher and higher, at what point do they stop being useful and jus...
Where megapixels do matter is the size you want your final picture to be. You need to have a camera or smartphone whose megapixel count matches how you plan to share your photographs. This is particularly important if you plan to print your pictures, because print quality depends on having...
The next most common consideration for quality enthusiasts is how many megapixels will the sensor produce, and how well can the sensor handle low-light. Ranging from 30 MP in top models like the Inspire 2’s Osmo camera, down to 2 MP in the Force1 Quadcopter, a drone’s sensor can dra...
That’s referred to as theresolutionof the device: a measure of how many pixels the device is capable of displaying. If you do the math, the screen has 2,304,000 pixels — a little over 2.3million. Camera people like to call numbers like thatmegapixels. The screen above would be 2.3...
The plain iPhone 16 also has a 48 megapixel main camera, so you might not need to go pro to get that much detail, but the second ultra-wide camera is only 12 megapixels.All iPhone 16 models have an action button on the right side of the phone. You can use this button to activate...
In theory, you should use the rear camera as it always offers higher resolution. But it’s not a golden rule. For example, my iPhone 15’s selfie camera is 12 MP—more than enough to snap a DIY passport photo! Important: While it might be tempting to play around with exposure, satura...
Apple's biggest camera upgrade for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models is to the Main lens, which has been increased to 48 megapixels. Apple says the new sensor also comes with a "new machine learning model [that] delivers sharper images and less noise for unp...