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Who only 16k for a camera sensor

Started Jan 21, 2020 | Discussions thread
Mark Ransom
Mark Ransom Veteran Member • Posts: 8,218
Re: Who only 16k for a camera sensor
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Brisn5757 wrote:

Tom Ames wrote:

Brisn5757 wrote:

I have the G7 camera which has a 16k pixel sensor and I noticed the Panasonic produced other cameras that have a 16k pixel sensor, so I'm wondering why not move to higher pixel sensors like other manufactures have.
The only advantage of a 16k sensor was when I was only holiday I could take a lot of photos without fulling up the media card.

Brian

8k monitors are already in the stores. And to future proof your photos 10-20 years from now and onwards, it's welcome to have high resolution mode or high resolution sensors, to take advantage of the high resolution TVs in the near future.

It will depend on how good the upscaling is as it needs to upscale a 20 MB sensor photo to full the 8K TV frame. In a 4K TV your downscaling so the quality would look better for a 20 MB sensor photo.

The 8K TV will be 33MP, but the widescreen nature of it will require leaving large amounts of blank space on either side or extreme cropping.

I still think that 8K is overkill and you won't be able to tell the difference between 4K and 8K at any reasonable viewing distance.  I already have trouble telling the difference between HD (2K) and 4K.  The upscaling won't matter, whether it's from 16MP or 20MP.

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