Anyone still want to tell me that 5MP isn’t sufficient for a good camera on a…

12 thoughts on “Anyone still want to tell me that 5MP isn’t sufficient for a good camera on a…”

1. 

   Tim Glaser

   November 4, 2011 at 15:24

   Peo­ple who think 5MP isn’t enough for a sen­sor that’s as tiny as the kind that are in phones just don’t know enough about how dig­i­tal cam­era tech­nol­ogy works.

   5MP is plenty good for tak­ing snap­shots, and image qual­ity will go up not from MP increases, but with bet­ter sensor/larger sen­sor, bet­ter optics, and bet­ter software.

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2. 

   Claudio Ibarra

   November 4, 2011 at 15:27

   If 5MP isn’t enough for a per­son, that per­son really shouldn’t be using a cell­phone cam­era anyway.

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3. 

   Tim Glaser

   November 4, 2011 at 15:27

   The resized jpg’s linked on that site really don’t help us see the qual­ity of the Nexus cam­era though.

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4. 

   Eoghann Irving

   November 4, 2011 at 15:30

   Actu­ally you could do an 8×10 print and still hit 240DPI which is eas­ily print quality.

   Fac­tor in view­ing dis­tance and I’m bet­ting a 13×10 would look just fine assum­ing the sen­sor is up to it.

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5. 

   Eoghann Irving

   November 4, 2011 at 15:40

   Actu­ally I’d dis­agree +Tim Glaser. Those images tell us a lot about the qual­ity in low light, it’s depth of field, color and much more.

   All of which are more impor­tant to me than megapixels.

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6. 

   Angel Wedge

   November 4, 2011 at 15:42

   When my cam­era was 1.3MP, I never had a prob­lem with the qual​ity​.At 3MP I never, ever viewed a pic­ture at full res­o­lu­tion unless I was crop­ping it because I wanted a pic of some­thing on the hori­zon.
   Num­bers keep going up, but for most uses, it quickly becomes a big­ger num­ber for the sake of being a big­ger num­ber. Now maybe if you’re actu­ally a pho­tog­ra­phy enthu­si­ast, it would be worth get­ting a cam­era with bet­ter con­trast response, more opti­cal zoom, and bet­ter optics in gen­eral. But just adding pixels?

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7. 

   Claudio Ibarra

   November 4, 2011 at 15:51

   I would love to see new met­rics for cam­era wars. Super-slo mo, night-vision, infra-red, just to name a few. But the num­ber of con­sumers who’d care about these things is far fewer than the num­ber of peo­ple who walk up to the counter and say “How many megapick­els [sic] do I need?”

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8. 

   Eoghann Irving

   November 4, 2011 at 15:54

   Big sell­ing points for the Galaxy Nexus cam­era as far as I’m concerned?

   Touch to focus (cru­cial)
   Fast

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9. 

   Rob Williams

   November 4, 2011 at 16:10

   I don’t really care about the MP size. I know that it’s actu­ally a rel­a­tively small fac­tor in the qual­ity of the shot. I just use what­ever comes with the phone I have. I cur­rently have the evo 4g, and it has an 8MP cam­era. I’ve used 5MP cell phone cam­eras though, and I actu­ally thought that the dif­fer­ence in qual­ity between the 8 and the 5 was negligible.

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10. 

    Liam Chadzynski

    November 4, 2011 at 17:06

    The cam­era on my HTC Sen­sa­tion is fan­tas­tic. I am using it more than my point-and-shoot dig­i­tal cam­era. Depth of field, colour, speed, touch-focus, blink/smile/face recog­ni­tion all superb. I have printed a few of the pho­tos, some­thing I’ve never done before with phonecam pictures.

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11. 

    Tim Glaser

    November 4, 2011 at 17:10

    by ‘superb depth of field’ I assume you mean almost every­thing is always in focus? The smaller the sen­sor the larger the DoF will be at a given focal length/aperture.

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12. 

    Vita Haake

    November 4, 2011 at 17:51

    Id argue that 5mp is too much for a cam­era that small

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