Comments on: Megapixels, schmegapixels http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2006/11/23/megapixels_schmegapixels/ Outlooks on hospitality sales and marketing in the social media era Sat, 13 Aug 2011 19:09:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Kevin Donahue http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2006/11/23/megapixels_schmegapixels/#comment-4253 Kevin Donahue Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:16:07 +0000 http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2006/11/23/megapixels_schmegapixels/#comment-4253 If you have no idea what how to crop a photo or what a megapixel is, then ignore Pete's comment above & buy a good 5-ish megapixel camera.

But, if you're an enthusiast or amateur photog, then Pete's right.

]]> By: Pete Holiday http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2006/11/23/megapixels_schmegapixels/#comment-4252 Pete Holiday Thu, 23 Nov 2006 16:00:15 +0000 http://blog.kevindonahue.com/archives/2006/11/23/megapixels_schmegapixels/#comment-4252 Rubbish.

This is good advice if you are a professional photographer who frames every photo correctly the first time. If you are not that person, buy as many megapixels as you can afford, because it will allow you to crop much, much more to get the perfect shot and STILL blow the picture up to 16" x 24".

My DSLR is an 8mp and I find myself doing a lot of cropping for two reasons 1. some of the pictures are made better by several orders of magnitude and 2. because I can.

You can also use the cropping as an artificial zoom lens… you take a picture with a 13mp camera and didn't get as close as you'd have wanted, so your subject is a little small and only takes up a small part of your frame… so crop the picture down to 5mp (or smaller, if you're not going to blow it up to 16×24) and pretend like you took a really awesome picture the first time.

The average person can make good use of those extra pixels.

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