Phone camera megapixels

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When you want to buy a mobile phone with camera, you may find yourself in doubt of what to choose. The quantity of megapixels is essential, but isn’t always the most important thing in order to choose a fine mobile phone. It depends on what are you planning on doing with the photographs and how are you going to do it.
A 1.3-2 megapixel camera is adequate for you if your intention is only to capture casual photographs and send them to your family and friends or upload them to social networks. The number of megapixels is only important if you want to magnify or manipulate the photographs in some way. If that’s your case, maybe a 7-8 megapixel camera will suit you better. More megapixels equal more flexibility. The options nowadays are quite numerous and almost all mobile phone brands have phones that cover a large spectrum of megapixels.
There are 3 clear trends for this year: slim screen, safe and speed. That’s what was discussed in the annual Mobile World Congress, the event where all mobile phone brands present their new proposals.
One of the main characteristics of mobile phones that advertise themselves as technological innovation is the number of megapixels that mobile phones have, that way starting a race between brands that seems to never end.
The new high end devices exceed 10 megapixels. For example, LG Optimus G Pro or the giant Sony Xperia Z, both have a 13 megapixel camera, exactly as the new Huawei Ascend P2, or the 8.7 megapixel camera of Nokia Lumia 920.
Until now midrange smartphones had from 5 to 8 megapixel camera. The last number is what the best sellers chose to use in their products, like the iSight camera from iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S III‘s camera.
Last year there were 2 phones that significantly exceeded this number of megapixels. The HTC Titan II reached 16 megapixels, but the real moster had other name: Nokia 808 PureView with a 41 megapixel camera.
But to what extent are images of such resolution necessary? The optics that cameras use is what really define the quality of the photographs, or how the light is “captured” and interpreted by the photographic sensor. Therefore, the adopted measure might be wrong, being that it’s calculated through a subpixel interpolation process. That’s why Apple always considered limiting the number of pixels in order to work on the quality of the captured images. And the result is obvious.
Most users believe that screen resolution equals image quality, but it’s really referred to the image’s size, and it isn’t always true the popular believe “the bigger – the better”. There are a lot of factors that determine a photograph’s sharpness. There is a moment when so many megapixels aren’t necessary.

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When you want to buy a mobile phone with camera, you may find yourself in doubt of what to choose. The quantity of megapixels is essential, but isn’t always the most important thing in order to choose a fine mobile phone. It depends on what are you planning on doing with the photographs and how are you going to do it.
A 1.3-2 megapixel camera is adequate for you if your intention is only to capture casual photographs and send them to your family and friends or upload them to social networks. The number of megapixels is only important if you want to magnify or manipulate the photographs in some way. If that’s your case, maybe a 7-8 megapixel camera will suit you better. More megapixels equal more flexibility. The options nowadays are quite numerous and almost all mobile phone brands have phones that cover a large spectrum of megapixels.
There are 3 clear trends for this year: slim screen, safe and speed. That’s what was discussed in the annual Mobile World Congress, the event where all mobile phone brands present their new proposals.
One of the main characteristics of mobile phones that advertise themselves as technological innovation is the number of megapixels that mobile phones have, that way starting a race between brands that seems to never end.
The new high end devices exceed 10 megapixels. For example, LG Optimus G Pro or the giant Sony Xperia Z, both have a 13 megapixel camera, exactly as the new Huawei Ascend P2, or the 8.7 megapixel camera of Nokia Lumia 920.
Until now midrange smartphones had from 5 to 8 megapixel camera. The last number is what the best sellers chose to use in their products, like the iSight camera from iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy S III‘s camera.
Last year there were 2 phones that significantly exceeded this number of megapixels. The HTC Titan II reached 16 megapixels, but the real moster had other name: Nokia 808 PureView with a 41 megapixel camera.
But to what extent are images of such resolution necessary? The optics that cameras use is what really define the quality of the photographs, or how the light is “captured” and interpreted by the photographic sensor. Therefore, the adopted measure might be wrong, being that it’s calculated through a subpixel interpolation process. That’s why Apple always considered limiting the number of pixels in order to work on the quality of the captured images. And the result is obvious.
Most users believe that screen resolution equals image quality, but it’s really referred to the image’s size, and it isn’t always true the popular believe “the bigger – the better”. There are a lot of factors that determine a photograph’s sharpness. There is a moment when so many megapixels aren’t necessary.