I’ve heard about megapixels being the amount of pixels in millions that a camera can take but I don’t understand how a Canon EOS R6 II can take better photos zoomed in than an iPhone 15 PM with optical zoom despite having a lower megapixel count.
I don’t get how a megapixel count correlates to the resolution, and how significant it is to the quality of the image.
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>I don’t understand how a Canon EOS R6 II can take better photos zoomed in than an iPhone 15 PM with optical zoom despite having a lower megapixel count.
Shame on everyone who ignored this part of the question. There are two ways that it’s possible to zoom. Your Canon camera has a series of lenses that can be adjusted so that the focal width is increased or decreased. When you decrease that focal width, a smaller area is blown up when it’s projected onto the detector.
However, this takes up a lot of physical space, which most phones don’t have. So, what the manufacturers do instead is have the lens always project the same size image onto the detector and then have the software show you only the central portion of what you’re taking a picture. It basically works like if you pulled an image off the internet, loaded it in Paint, and then selected the middle with the Marquee function so you could blow it up to the size of the original. While the phone’s camera might have more megapixels than your Canon, the zoomed image on the phone that you have it in only uses a fraction of the megapixels, making it grainier than what you get on a real camera.
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