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How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?

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Neptune76

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How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?

Aug 28, 2011

For example.. a jump from 12mp to 18mp.. or 18mp to 30mp...

there are a ton of pictures where if I zoom in to a part of the photo it's just a blur of a few pixels it seems... I would imagine more mp would have added details

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How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Neptune76	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Graystar	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Neptune76	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	efrench	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	John Sheehy	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Graystar	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	flakin stephen	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	John Sheehy	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	John Sheehy	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	John Motts	Sep 1, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	ljfinger	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Graystar	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	ljfinger	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Graystar	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	ljfinger	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Mako2011	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	ljfinger	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Graystar	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	ljfinger	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Graystar	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	ljfinger	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Graystar	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	ljfinger	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Graystar	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	ljfinger	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Graystar	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	ljfinger	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Steen Bay	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Kikiss	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	John Sheehy	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Kikiss	Aug 28, 2011
'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Great Bustard	Aug 28, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Steen Bay	Aug 28, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Great Bustard	Aug 28, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Steen Bay	Aug 28, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Great Bustard	Aug 29, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Bobn2	Aug 29, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Great Bustard	Aug 29, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Bobn2	Aug 29, 2011
So now the thread goes to sh!t. : )	Great Bustard	Aug 29, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Steen Bay	Aug 30, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Kikiss	Aug 29, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Great Bustard	Aug 29, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	John Sheehy	Aug 29, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	John Sheehy	Aug 29, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Great Bustard	Aug 29, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Steen Bay	Aug 30, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	John Sheehy	Aug 31, 2011
I would be interested...	Great Bustard	Aug 31, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Steen Bay	Sep 1, 2011
Re: 'less light per pixel' is a meaningless measure in terms of the photo.	Graystar	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	ljfinger	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	jonas ar	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Kikiss	Aug 29, 2011
Resolution and MP count or Focal Length	sherwoodpete	Aug 28, 2011
Re: Resolution and MP count or Focal Length	ljfinger	Aug 28, 2011
Re: Resolution and MP count or Focal Length	sherwoodpete	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Barry Fitzgerald	Aug 28, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	romphotog	Aug 28, 2011
Here's a recent comparison I did	Horshack	Aug 28, 2011
Oh, people say most anything they want.	Great Bustard	Aug 28, 2011
Re: Oh, people say most anything they want.	sorinx	Aug 28, 2011
Re: Oh, people say most anything they want.	Great Bustard	Aug 29, 2011
Re: Oh, people say most anything they want.	richardplondon	Aug 29, 2011
What if you don't zoom in?	TrapperJohn	Aug 29, 2011
Re: What if you don't zoom in?	John Sheehy	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	munro harrap	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Great Bustard	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	munro harrap	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	munro harrap	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	Steen Bay	Aug 29, 2011
Re: How can people say megapixels don't make a difference?	john	Aug 30, 2011

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