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How much does megapickles matter?

Anonymous Fri 16 Aug 2019 05:17:21 No.3521456 View View Reply Original Report

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Im seeing a lot of times newer models have lower MPs than older models
>D7100-24.1MP D7500-20.9MP
Should I just get an older fullmeme DSLR, with 16MP. I honestly can't tell a big difference between 20MP and 16MP photos, unless I zoom in, but would others be able to easily tell?

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Anonymous Fri 16 Aug 2019 06:18:09 No.3521465 Report

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I'm just a hobbyist and I want an older D700 12.1 MP camera than anything else out there. The large pixels and colors have a very unique look to the images and its great if you don't crop. Some photographers still use it for portraits because skin tones come out so great on it.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Aug 2019 06:51:06 No.3521472 Report

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>>3521456
I find 24mp is decent enough if you like cropping.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Aug 2019 14:46:09 No.3521593 Report

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>>3521456
if you compose properly and are shooting for the web then 12 megapixels is plenty

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Anonymous Fri 16 Aug 2019 14:52:53 No.3521598 Report

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the one you have with you

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Anonymous Fri 16 Aug 2019 16:39:25 No.3521631 Report

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>>3521456
If you frame stuff right 12 or 16 is enough. I have 16 and thats more than absolutely enough. Plus modern mirrorlets have a high res mode if you need more pickle for the image.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Aug 2019 16:43:10 No.3521634 Report

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>>3521456
try not being poor

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Anonymous Fri 16 Aug 2019 18:06:53 No.3521657 Report

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>>3521456
for me the minimum is 24 MP. so i would get a better camera than that anon...

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 16 Aug 2019 19:07:52 No.3521675 Report

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Image quality doesn't depend on megapixels, but on light collection properties of the sensor. In fact a too large amount of pixels could force individual pixel size to diminish so much that the image quality would suffer via additional noise. Same goes for small sensors but they fail additionally by having smaller area to collect light.

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Anonymous Fri 16 Aug 2019 23:35:21 No.3521750 Report

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>>3521456
> but would others be able to easily tell?
Probably yes.

That said it depends a lot on the lens and situation, under optimal conditions (very high end lens / no noise because you did ISO100 / nearly no cropping because you framed virtually perfectly) I figure the image is good for almost any typical use. Maybe your 16MP FF DSLR even has large pixels, that might help with diffraction at narrower apertures.

That said this isn't all that easy outside of a studio. Usually there are a lot of reasons to get better camera bodies.

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Anonymous Sat 17 Aug 2019 00:13:48 No.3521758 Report

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Anonymous Sat 17 Aug 2019 01:31:13 No.3521779 Report

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>>3521675
That and the quality of the lens matters too.
After a certain point you're not getting any more image detail, just more of the distortion from the lens.

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