CONTACT: Leave me a Houston or Texas media news tip | COMMENT: Click to leave your thoughts on this post hereIt goes like this: “The more megapixels a camera has, the better the pictures.”
It’s a big fat lie. The camera companies and camera stores all know it, but they continue to exploit our misunderstanding. Advertisements declare a camera’s megapixel rating as though it’s a letter grade, implying that a 7-megapixel model is necessarily better than a 5-megapixel model.
Thursday, February 08, 2007
Breaking the myth of megapixels
David Pogue of the New York Times writes about the megapixel myth:
