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Subject: Re: [OM] Megapixels and definition or how many angels can dance on the head of a pin
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:19:56 +0100
Brian is dissatisfied with the sharpness of his photos. He's asking for
help to understand what part of the process needs improving. You're right,
it's not the number of pixels on his camera sensor.
Jez
On Thursday, 22 September 2016, Mike Lazzari <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I think this is something of the 'blind men and the elephant'. It depends
> upon where you look. All you engineers are the blind men who are dissecting
> the animal and arguing minutia and in the process have killed the damn thing
>
> After you have 'enough' pixels who cares? How much detail is 5x as much
> blue sky? Clouds? Water? And the whole thing changes if you take a few
> steps one way or the other. Or the light changes.
>
> Go take some photos
>
> :)
>
> My supposition is that the print from (b) will be 5 times sharper (5 x
>> more detail) than the one
>> from (a) because each inch from it contains information from 5 pixels,
>> not just 1 pixel. Reply?
>>
>
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