Megapixels are all the same

Tags: Photography

Here is something that I have been saying for a while. The truth about digital Cameras.

What is it? Well:

We blew up a photograph to 16 x 24 inches at a professional photo lab. One print had 13-megapixel resolution; one had 8; the third had 5.

….we ran the test for about 45 minutes. Dozens of people stopped to take the test; a little crowd gathered. About 95 percent of the volunteers gave up, announcing that there was no possible way to tell the difference, even when mashing their faces right up against the prints.

There you go, the megapixel myth at its finest.