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This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone who understands cameras and megapixels and storage space but it could be a good excuse to not get suckered by the megapixel wars in buying a camera. The more pixels, the more space it takes. A thousand images taken on the 36 megapixeled Nikon D800 takes up 47 gigs. A thousand images on the reasonable 12 megapixel Nikon D3s? Only 15 gigs.
Duh. Three times the megapixels, three times the storage space. Makes total sense, don’t it? But do we really need all those pixels? If you’re taking vacation pictures that just get stored on your laptop? Probably not. If you bought a DSLR because you have a kid now and that’s what people with kids do? Probably not. If you thought buying an ‘spensive camera because you want better Instagram pictures? Probably not. Which means you’re paying needless money on something that takes up needless space! So be wary the next time you get suckered into the peenwhipping measurement of megapixels, you’re gonna have to pay for it in storage. [Scott Kelby via PetaPixel]
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personally i think 10mp is sufficient for all but high end photography.
10MP will do you fine unless you go up above A3 size, even if you are a pro.
People think it’s worth getting a higher MP count than they need ‘just in case’ they might want to do some fancy photos in the future. However, buy the time they need it they would have been able to buy a point and shoot with the same MPs for much less
Less is more. I’m going to save on space and only use one pixel.
you know what, people would probably pay vast sums of money for those shots too
i think you are onto a winner
you could also make a phone app that takes one pixel pictures
I’d still cut the heads off
Here’s my first piece, I call it: stylelifebiker
http://imgur.com/SLNtV
it’s beautiful
I like it, what was your motivation behind it?
All modern art has to have some blurb about how they’re highlighting a cause and this is their statement to protest about it.
It’s all about communication and how, whilst we may be better connected than ever before, we are actually further apart. This piece highlights the incongruence of the digital and the non-digital. The window showing bikerlifestyle’s post relates to our “connectedness” whilst the penis grasped in the hand symbolises loneliness.
We all know that one thousand pictures are worth one word. No, wait…
Your argument against the megapixel war is disk consumption? Really?
Loads of megapixels have their place, especially on pro equipment like the D800.
I think most pro’s that want seriously high resolution (and hopefully image quality) would actually go for a medium format.
As a pro myself I cannot see the need for 36mp in a DSLR body.
Cost and size is two good reasons I see but also DSLRs can do things that medium format cameras can’t, like shooting fast-paced sports, etc.
“The more pixels, the more space it takes.”
What a load of bollix. A 10 megapixel image of a busy scene will be larger than a 24 megapixel image of clouds over a snow scene.
Please, for the sake of all the impressionable young minds which read this, could someone develop an accuracy policy?
Please?
I’m guessing you’re new around these parts.
Did.. you just say that?
Are you insane?
Higher resolutions have their uses, especially for professionals, and that’s who the higher res bodies are aimed at. Casual shooters shouldn’t be buying a D800, if they do they’re to blame for being idiots and not Nikon for offering the resolution to those that need it.
Most of the megapixel war is marketing duff, conning the consumer into thinking more MP = better pictures.
Sure if you have a huge amount of pixels from say the D800 you can crop and crop again and still retain some detail and this could be useful for studio and wildlife snappers.
20-25MP on a full frame sensor is about all you need really,
i love all the talk about Pros needing the res..
this is a pro camera, its 4/5MPs,
http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Cameras/Digital_SLR/EOS_1D/index.asp?specs=1
it delivered magazine covers, advertising shots, award winning wildlife photography.. i liked the comment above that said you cant print much bigger than A3 with 10MP.. not in jpeg maybe, but 10MP RAW and TIFF will give you bigger then A3, i know i have printed it. colours lacked ill grant you and compared to the quality of shots these days i agree they are poor so why not get better MP`s, but really even the Canon 5D mk1 will give you bloody amazing pics and print over A3 and thats only 12mps. The real winner is the frame size with these cameras, the Full frame bodies will give much better results than some larger MP APS-C`s pic your gear right and with good lenses rather than stupidly high body specs and you will get great results (content is your problem)
Personally, i think most people would be happy with the results from a micro 4/thirds camera, The Pen or NEX, these are great glass on great sensors, small and good results. render the DSLR pointless for the average user. if however you are a pro or a serious amateur then spend the money on good glass and get a mid range body.. i have seen a Nikon D200 print A2 and it looked fucking amazing.. go get one of them!!
also the higher res cameras are aimed at sports pros and celeb photographers, the high res allows them to crop in at stupidly high amounts and still have a printable image..
the way i look at it is 4K UHD TV’s have a resolution of 3840 × 2160, which about 8 or 9 megapixels (according to Wikipedia), and most of the photo’s people take will be kept on their laptop, put on facebook, so i’d say about 10 megapixels is perfect