Phone camera image, heavily cropped, less than 1 native Megapixel

How many Megapixels do you need? Depends how big you wanna enlarge, 10 MP is probably fine for everything. I print 120x80cm with 12,8 MP from time to time and the prints look stunning. It's much more important to put a sharp lens in front of your camera than blowing up an image that is not the sharpest in the first place. Megapixels are a sales pitch for years to make innocent people buy new cameras. After Megapixels came ISOs. Every modern camera can shoot in every light and give great looking images. The smaller the camera the noisier your night shots but the smallest pocket cameras are still pretty good. It's much more important to improve your techniques and really think before taking a picture to make it interesting. Framing, light, colour, expression, moment are all much more important than Megapixels. That's why women take better images most of the time. They don't care about tech, they care about the image. Think about it before dreaming of the next camera that might improve your photos, it won't and will save you a lot of money ...

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