Megapixels vs. Clarity

What's the difference between Megapixels and Clarity?

Before this question can be answered, the meaning of a few terms need to be made clear

Resolution is simply the number of pixels in a display or camera. It is measured in pixels. The word "pixel" stands for Picture Element. It is the smallest point of light in an image or graphic. 1 pixel can contain only 1 shade of colour at a time. Just like other units it can be converted to deca, kilo or megapixels.

What is Pixel Density

Pixel Density is the amount of pixels per unit area. Commonly measured in PPI(Pixels Per Inch). Usually the higher the Pixel Density the more is the clarity

Generally, the higher the resolution, the clearer is the image but that's not always true because at very high resolutions one gets to a point where more pixels are just wasted as they don't produce much sharper photos but the file size increases. That being said, the higher resolution photo will be noticeable on a big frame(like on a high resolution monitor or a big picture frame) as the image will be physically larger, but in small frames(like Instagram posts) the difference will hardly be noticeable.

The 71ppi and 36ppi images look almost identical but the former will take up more storage as it has a higher resolution.

Taking high resolution photos from a small camera sensor may also result in noise as enough light does not enter the sensor to properly distinguish each colour from the another.

Thus megapixels count is beneficial to a certain limit. What that limit is, is a topic of debate.

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This question was asked byShivansh Khanna via our Instagram page. I hope this helps.