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To: Swordmaker

Oftentimes, clients request photo resolutions far greater than the iPhone 7 Plus’ 12 megapixels.

My Nokia 950XL has 20 megapixels.
What’s the big deal?


14 posted on 02/16/2017 2:21:37 PM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: Excellence
Oftentimes, clients request photo resolutions far greater than the iPhone 7 Plus’ 12 megapixels.

My Nokia 950XL has 20 megapixels.
What’s the big deal?

Like most people you mistake megapixels for quality. More megapixels will only allow you to blow up a photo to larger pictures and retain a give quality. . . it does not necessarily make a picture a better photo. For example you cannot pack more detail into a photo of a certain size than the human eye can discern. . . and there is a specific limit for that. Picture quality is measure in arc minutes of acuity and the distance the photo is from the eye, not megapixels. For example a 1080P image is sufficiently good enough for a high-resolution image on a Motion Picture screen that the audience cannot discern a loss of acuity at 60 feet, but the pixels are now ½" in size on a forty-five foot screen! The movie will look the same quality as they see on their HD TV at home at 10 feet.

22 posted on 02/16/2017 8:17:26 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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