Wednesday, September 4, 2013

What is the size of printout you can get from a 2 megapixel camera?

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For a 2 megapixel camera , what is the size of photo can you get ?
Similarily , what about a 3 megapixel camera, 5 megapixel camera
and so on ?



Answer
You can get any size of printoutfrom these cameras (in theory). In practice it is a question of quality. Assuming that your printout has a ratio of 10/15 and the pixel size is P, the pixels ler line that you will get is sqrt(15/10 x P). To get a good print this should be at least 200 pixels per inch. For 2 megapixels, this means about 1700 pixels or 8.5 inces, for 3 megapixels 2120 pxiles or 10.5 inces, for 2700 pixles or 14 inches. Note that in practice, godd printing softwares will extrapolate actual camera pictures and eventually allow for good prints at larger sizes. In addition the quality of the actual image will have an impact on how a print will look like, i.e. a 2m picture from an expensive professional digital camera will look much better than the same picture from a cheap mobile camera at the same size, simply because of the quality of the image captured.

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I'm starting a course in three weeks time that is basically all digital stuff: including photography. I would like to take the photography path as we were told to choose between game development (not very good with writing programs) and photography.
So should I get a 14 megapixel, 16 megapixel or 20 megapixel camera (I had a look an I'm quite keen on the Samsung Smart Camera 16 megapixel camera but I first wanted to ask how many megapixel camera I should get.)

Thanks in advance!



Answer
Zero mega pixels is just about right. YES, I am kidding, but I am just trying to drive home the point that mega pixels do not matter any more! All cameras produced for the last several years have enough mega pixels to produce great quality prints. BUT you must always set you camera for MAXIMUM RESOLUTION. How do you do this? With most cameras you enter the "menu" function and scroll through until you come to the "pixel" setting. ALWAYS set you camera for greatest number of pixels and leave it there! But you want small files for email etc. You should get your yourself a small program for your computer, where you can save your picture for email (using a slightly different name of course).

More important is the length of the zoom lens. You want at a minimum a camera with 5x optical zoom lens. A camera with a 3x zoom lens is useless, and you will wish you had at least a 5x with in a couple of months. You didn't mention a budget for this purchase so it is hard to make a recommendation. Samsung are ok cameras. But Canon, Fuji, Nikon, Pentax are really the names to strive for!

P.S. You said nothing about a DSLR, Digital SIngle Lens Reflex camera like someone else recommended. That is like buying a ladder with 5 of the 6 rungs remove! Too much camera for your level at this point.




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