Shutter & Chill
Megapixel wars - 6MP vs 22MP can you tell?
How many megapixels do we need? This image was composed from a shot presented at two resolutions - original 22MP (lower) and downsampled 6.3MP (higher). Was made with 5D mark III with a Contax Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 35-70mm F3.4 lens in its macro mode at 35mm, at F8. The lower section: you see a crop from the original 22MP RAW, at 100% magnification. Top: same image was exported as a 6.3MP jpeg (6.3MP is the resolution of my Canon 10D - I was wondering how it would look like were I to have taken this shot with the 10D instead.) The 6.3MP file was opened in DPP4 and the magnification set to 200%, and the 22MP RAW file was also opened in DPP4, magnified to 100%, and I took screenshots of both. Used Photoshop to get the two into the same image so I an upload like this. Top part: 6.3Mp at 200% view, Bottom: 22MP at 100% view. What do you say, do we loose much information by the downsampling? Even though I am blowing up the downsampled image to a slightly larger size than the original high megapixel image, yet top bit still looks as good as the bottom one. However, when I did the 400% vs 200% there the smaller file could not keep up with the original, it fell apart to pixels. In the meanwhile, for practical purposes, at the screen size a 6MP image might be all we need.... :)
Let me know what your experiences are / were when going back to / experimenting with lower megapixels AFTER you have already gotten used to higher megapixel photos!
Megapixel wars - 6MP vs 22MP can you tell?
How many megapixels do we need? This image was composed from a shot presented at two resolutions - original 22MP (lower) and downsampled 6.3MP (higher). Was made with 5D mark III with a Contax Zeiss Vario-Sonnar 35-70mm F3.4 lens in its macro mode at 35mm, at F8. The lower section: you see a crop from the original 22MP RAW, at 100% magnification. Top: same image was exported as a 6.3MP jpeg (6.3MP is the resolution of my Canon 10D - I was wondering how it would look like were I to have taken this shot with the 10D instead.) The 6.3MP file was opened in DPP4 and the magnification set to 200%, and the 22MP RAW file was also opened in DPP4, magnified to 100%, and I took screenshots of both. Used Photoshop to get the two into the same image so I an upload like this. Top part: 6.3Mp at 200% view, Bottom: 22MP at 100% view. What do you say, do we loose much information by the downsampling? Even though I am blowing up the downsampled image to a slightly larger size than the original high megapixel image, yet top bit still looks as good as the bottom one. However, when I did the 400% vs 200% there the smaller file could not keep up with the original, it fell apart to pixels. In the meanwhile, for practical purposes, at the screen size a 6MP image might be all we need.... :)
Let me know what your experiences are / were when going back to / experimenting with lower megapixels AFTER you have already gotten used to higher megapixel photos!