{"id":11949,"date":"2014-11-25T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T05:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=11949"},"modified":"2014-11-25T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T05:37:00","slug":"megapixel-per-se","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2014\/11\/25\/megapixel-per-se\/","title":{"rendered":"Megapixel per se"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iPhone<\/p>\n

Joanna Stern,\u00a0writing for WSJ.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A quick camera reminder: Looking at the megapixel numbers when comparing phones won\u2019t help you at all. An 8-megapixel camera with a superior sensor can take far better photos, even more detailed ones, than a 21-megapixel camera with an inferior one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m really glad to see Joanna Stern mentions this. For years, a lot of so-called Tech Journalists still measuring the quality of a camera by the pixel-count alone.<\/p>\n

Some few years ago, a clerk\/salesperson at a store that shall remain nameless adamantly told me that a 13-Megapixel point-and-shoot camera captured better image\u00a0than an 8-Megapixel DSLR Camera.<\/p>\n

On a personal note, Joanna Stern lost one point for using the term “phablet” for a product category. Just call it a big-ass phones and it would’ve sound much better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joanna Stern,\u00a0writing for WSJ.com: A quick camera reminder: Looking at the megapixel numbers when comparing phones won\u2019t help you at all. An 8-megapixel camera with a superior sensor can take far better photos, even more detailed ones, than a 21-megapixel camera with an inferior one. I’m really glad to see Joanna Stern mentions this. For … <\/p>\n

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