More Megapixels = Better Photos?

Last updated: Sunday, February 11th, 2007

David Pogue explains why the more megapixels a camera has, the better the pictures is just a myth;

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“Megapixels may matter to professionals, too, especially those who produce photos for wall-size retail displays. And even in consumer cameras, there are certainly limits to the irrelevance of megapixels; my test went only to 16 by 24 inches, which is the biggest I figured most amateurs would go…The actual lesson, then, is this: “For the nonprofessional, five or six megapixels is plenty, even if you intend to make poster-size prints.”

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