topic Re: Accurate megapixels? in EOS DSLR & Mirrorless Cameras

Accurate megapixels?

snmsantosh — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:05:41 GMT

Do canon t6i have 24.2 accurate megapixels?

Re: Accurate megapixels?

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:18:26 GMT

What do you mean by accurate?

Re: Accurate megapixels?

snmsantosh — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:21:09 GMT

I have two camera canon t5 18 megapixel and canon t6i 24.2 megapixel but both camera's photos are same looklike same
24.2 megapixel means it need to have better quality right? Or something else

Re: Accurate megapixels?

jrhoffman75 — Fri, 02 Sep 2016 22:24:41 GMT

It depends on what you are doing with your images. What size are you printing?

Re: Accurate megapixels?

ebiggs1 — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 02:57:52 GMT

"... two camera canon t5 18 megapixel and canon t6i 24.2 megapixel but both camera's photos are same ..."

You mean they look the same on your computer monitor? Right? So you think the 8mp increase is not worth it because they do look similar? With most modern DSLR cameras you need to get to pixel level to really see the difference. In other words you need a 100% enlargement of you comparisons.

And that is precisely what the increase will give you. The ability to crop further. At normal viewing it may be difficult to see but enlarged it will be easy.

Re: Accurate megapixels?

TTMartin — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 14:49:49 GMT

@snmsantosh wrote:
I have two camera canon t5 18 megapixel and canon t6i 24.2 megapixel but both camera's photos are same looklike same
24.2 megapixel means it need to have better quality right? Or something else

Generally all you need is 8-12 megapixels after cropping, everything else is just marketing.

Re: Accurate megapixels?

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 03 Sep 2016 17:36:24 GMT

Agree.

Re: Accurate megapixels?

BurnUnit — Wed, 07 Sep 2016 01:36:40 GMT

Look at the information or properties for one of your image files and find the pixel dimensions for width and height of the image. Multiply the width by the height and this is the total number of pixels in the image. 1600x1200=1,920,000 pixels or 1.92 MP. 5184x3456=17,915,904 pixels, rounded up to a nice even 18MP.