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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> don’t get how a megapixel count correlates to the resolution
They are essentially the same thing.
> how significant it is to the quality of the image.
It’s one of several hard gates to a good picture. It doesn’t matter if a phone has a 600 megapixel sensor if the optics are from the nearest Shenzhen market and the sensor only has pixel number going for it and not pixel quality. The sensor will just end up capturing a shitty image stretched over more pixels. Meanwhile a professional camera will get close to the maximum quality you can pack into 15 megapixels by having great optics to project a good image onto a sensor that has 15 million large and high quality pixels rather than 200 million small noisy garbage ones.
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