Racer X 69
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Does your phone have an optical zoom? And how big is the lens? Megapixels don't mean a damn thing to me if the camera lens is the size of a pencil eraser.
Most of these digital cameras and "phones" have tiny lenses that simply can't capture more than about one megapixel worth of optical data & the circuitry just enlarges the image to make it "eight megapixels". People think the number of megapixels determines how "good" a camera is.
You can take a 640x480 web cam and stick a chip in it that enlarges the image to 4000 x 3000 & call it a 12 megapixel camera if you want.
I have a 10 MP Kodak digital camera with a lens that's only about 3/4". At full res, the pictures look blurry when viewed at "actual size". I kept changing the resolution down til I got to 3 MP & compared the 3 MP image to the 10 MP image, then I used Photoshop to enlarge the 3 MP to the same size as the 10 MP image & they hardly looked any different at all. So I figured out that it's nothing but a 3 megapixel camera that artificially enlarges the pictures before it saves them.
I have to take the images that my digital SLR makes and reduce them is size before posting them on the forum, or they will be far too big to view.
I think the forum software resizes them to fit, but if you click the bar at the top of the image it will become gigantic.
And if I want to print out a very large image, no problem. I have a large format printer that prints off of a roll 24" wide.
Here is one of my pictures the size that if comes out of the camera:
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And the same image after reducing the size so it isn't so huge.
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