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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If you zoom in on a picture, it’s made of tiny dots. Each of these dots are a single “pixel”. A megapixel is one million pixels.
The more pixels in a picture, the more detail you can show. A one pixel picture of the Earth will be a square blue dot. A 16 pixel picture might have some green and white and be vaguely roundish.
A 121 million pixel (megapixel) picture of the Earth will look like this
https://www.cnet.com/science/stunning-high-resolution-photo-shows-earths-many-hues/
More pixels means more details.
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