Comments on: Why I want >576 Mega pixel, multi lens, 50 frame per second, point and shoot camera http://talklikeaphysicist.com/2008/why-i-want-576-mega-pixel-multi-lens-50-frame-per-second-point-and-shoot-camera-2/ Talk Like A Physicist Day : March 14, 2011 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:51:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Andy http://talklikeaphysicist.com/2008/why-i-want-576-mega-pixel-multi-lens-50-frame-per-second-point-and-shoot-camera-2/comment-page-1/#comment-402 Andy Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:21:02 +0000 http://talklikeaphysicist.com/2008/why-i-want-576-mega-pixel-multi-lens-50-frame-per-second-point-and-shoot-camera-2/#comment-402 Speaking of the owner of a 10.2MP Nikon D200, I beg to differ that high resolution equates with poor quality. If anything, the opposite is generally true. Poor quality images are almost always the fault of the photographer, not the camera they use, and any photographer would, all things being equal, prefer to shoot with a 10mp camera than with a 6mp. Technology is progressing, with models such as Canon's EOS 1Ds Mk 3 21 megapixel camera commanding premium prices of several thousand dollars. None of these cameras would have sold if they had not been seen to be capable of producing images far surpassing - in detail and resolution at least - images produced by less expensive cameras. It is true that the higher the resolution, the more the viewable size of the image, the more likely it is that blurring will degrade the quality of the image - this can be demonstrated by looking through a handheld telescope half extended, and then looking through it fully extended and noting the difference in image shake. Again, accomplished photographers are capable of dealing with this issue to a high degree. Speaking of the owner of a 10.2MP Nikon D200, I beg to differ that high resolution equates with poor quality. If anything, the opposite is generally true.
Poor quality images are almost always the fault of the photographer, not the camera they use, and any photographer would, all things being equal, prefer to shoot with a 10mp camera than with a 6mp.

Technology is progressing, with models such as Canon’s EOS 1Ds Mk 3 21 megapixel camera commanding premium prices of several thousand dollars. None of these cameras would have sold if they had not been seen to be capable of producing images far surpassing – in detail and resolution at least – images produced by less expensive cameras.

It is true that the higher the resolution, the more the viewable size of the image, the more likely it is that blurring will degrade the quality of the image – this can be demonstrated by looking through a handheld telescope half extended, and then looking through it fully extended and noting the difference in image shake. Again, accomplished photographers are capable of dealing with this issue to a high degree.

]]> By: Matthias http://talklikeaphysicist.com/2008/why-i-want-576-mega-pixel-multi-lens-50-frame-per-second-point-and-shoot-camera-2/comment-page-1/#comment-383 Matthias Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:18:55 +0000 http://talklikeaphysicist.com/2008/why-i-want-576-mega-pixel-multi-lens-50-frame-per-second-point-and-shoot-camera-2/#comment-383 The problem with most 10MP cameras is that a) their optics can't keep up and b) they are very light insensitive, so in the end you could end up with a blurry, noisy 10MP picture containing less information than one takenly with an equally priced 6MP cam. The problem with most 10MP cameras is that a) their optics can’t keep up and b) they are very light insensitive, so in the end you could end up with a blurry, noisy 10MP picture containing less information than one takenly with an equally priced 6MP cam.

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