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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What others have said is correct (mostly) but i want to point out an error in your premise.
The iphones main camera is 48MP compared to the canon’s 20MP however at 5x zoom it the iphone switches to the telephoto camera which is only 12 MP.
And outside of those zoom ratios the iphone uses digital cropping so at 2x it will use 1/4 of the main sensor so 12MP and at 10x it will use 1/4 of the telephoto sensor so 3MP. While with the correct lense the canon can maintain full resolution at any zoom.
TLDR: no when zoomed in the canon does not have a lower megapixel count than an iphone over ~1.5x zoom.
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