Monday, May 10, 2004
Digital Web: "On Digital Photography"
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 06:00 PM
"Now that you have approximately 6328 varieties of digital cameras to choose from, making the choice is easy, just get the one with the most megapixels, right? Well, maybe.
Unfortunately, just like late night infomercials, it's easy to get sucked into fancy descriptions and "cutting edge" technology with these claims of increased megapixels. Just because a camera is advertised as having 3 megapixels doesn't mean that it's using all 3 of those megapixels to capture an image. Furthermore, the size and shape of these pixels play a huge part in the quality of the information they capture. As an example, a professional 3 megapixel will often outperform (in terms of detail, color captured and overall image quality) a consumer-grade 5 megapixel camera due to having a larger imaging chip, in addition to better in-camera image processing."
Stephen Voss over at Digital Web Magazine writes this article on digital photography called "On Digital Photography". It is basically another article trying to dispense with the craze around megapixels but it is very well written. He also talks about color management and publishing images on the web.
Unfortunately, just like late night infomercials, it's easy to get sucked into fancy descriptions and "cutting edge" technology with these claims of increased megapixels. Just because a camera is advertised as having 3 megapixels doesn't mean that it's using all 3 of those megapixels to capture an image. Furthermore, the size and shape of these pixels play a huge part in the quality of the information they capture. As an example, a professional 3 megapixel will often outperform (in terms of detail, color captured and overall image quality) a consumer-grade 5 megapixel camera due to having a larger imaging chip, in addition to better in-camera image processing."
Stephen Voss over at Digital Web Magazine writes this article on digital photography called "On Digital Photography". It is basically another article trying to dispense with the craze around megapixels but it is very well written. He also talks about color management and publishing images on the web.
