To many Pixels is counter-productive!

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theswede
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Re: To many Pixels is counter-productive !
In reply to alpha90290, 3 months ago

Unless you have a GPU card, your image processing will not be faster with 32GB RAM.

Than with, say, 16MB? It definitely will. And it will also be faster than with, say, 1GB. Or 2GB.

Putting few layers of high mega pixels pictures together will easily eat up the RAM.

32GB nets me more than just "a few layers". I can do dozens without GIMP breaking a sweat or busting the 10GB barrier.

More megapixels doesn't mean more dynamic range. The camera maker need to design the processing engine to transform the extra megapixel into dynamic range.

So you're saying the megapixels are required for the dynamic range but do not automatically provide it. You do understand that much. Then what is the objection to the megapixels?

For example, the Nokia 808 high pixel count 41 MP is to allow the 808 to produce better quality lower-resolution images (3MP, 5MP or 8MP).

And why can't I be allowed to do that in my own post processing instead of it being forced on me in the camera?

If the camera maker didn't transform the additonal pixels into dynamic range, what you get is just a large picture with same dynamic range of a lower megapixel picture.

It's not up to the camera maker what I do with my 41MP image. It's up to me. If he'd only give it to me!

Jesper

Edited 3 months ago by theswede
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