More Megapixels, Better Camera?
Not necessarily! If you find that pictures from your 10 megapixel camera phone don’t stack up against those from your pal’s lower megapixel digital SLR camera, here’s why…
Sensor Size
How a digital camera works is: light lands on a sensor where pixels collect light and converts it into data. The more pixels packed onto a sensor, the higher the image resolution. The sensor size and pixels in a mobile phone is way smaller than the sensor found in a DSLR camera – bigger sensors have bigger light-catching pixels. To achieve a high resolution, camera phone makers pack as many tiny pixels as they can onto tiny sensors. The pixels in these point-and-shoots are not the same as the high-quality pixels found on DSLR cameras.
Noise
When you’re taking pictures at night under disco lights with your camera phone, a lot of heat is created, which is one of the ways “noise” is generated – not the audio sort, but it’s the rainbow colored random grains you sometimes see in pictures taken in a dim setting. A lower megapixel count with a bigger sensor on the other hand will produce cleaner images. Advanced digital camera models tone down the grains with noise reduction functions, a feature you normally won’t find on a camera phone.
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Great article and very informative. Thanks for sharing.
Your right, even between SLR cameras there are so many variables.
Thanks,
Clay
A informative article that taught me something,was interesting reading.
Thanks for the tips!
Blessings.
Sincerely,
-Liane Schmidt.
An interesting, well written article, Matt.
Great tips and nice read.
I have been told that I am challenged where technology is concerned
this material is always helpful.
Short, sweet, and very informative.
Another of life’s mysteries solved! I’m in robotics, and we do a lot of electronic work, but I definitely did not know that about cameras.
Good write!
OK, thanks for the info…
I know something more.
great article, hope my son can’t get hold of those items. LOL
Thanks!! that really was most informative because I was looking at a phone with and 8meg camera, wondering if I should go with that or the iphone….now I know 
Apple always makes a better product anyway!
Thanks again!
Intersting..I still don’t get it though. Maybe it is because my mind doesn’t comprehend technology well ha
Great article, informative and understandable to people who don’t know about cameras. Thanks for sharing.
Great article. Sometimes, you just can’t beat the quality of lower pixels on great cameras!!!
thanks for sharing this, now i know!
Great useful information I wasn’t aware of..Thanks!
Great to know.
There’s definitely a lot more to camera quality than pixel count.
