| Higher megapixel photographs means bigger | | | | and buildings with a 12 megapixel camera it will be |
| prints, for instance, the max print size you can | | | | approximately 7 megabytes whereas if you take |
| get from a 6 megapixel image is approximately | | | | a picture of a blank wall with the same camera on |
| A4 whereas a 12 megapixel photograph will look | | | | the same setting it will probably be around 4 |
| good printed up to A3 size. If you are considering | | | | megapixels. |
| selling photographs or become a professional | | | | Photography Techniques, Megapixel or MP is |
| photographer it is advisable that you spend | | | | simply a shorthand way of saying one million |
| money on getting a 10+ megapixel Digital Single | | | | pixels, therefore a 6 megapixel image is made up |
| Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera, as this will give you | | | | of six millions pixels, or six millions different blocks |
| the flexibility to create reasonably large, good | | | | of colour. The average digital camera today takes |
| quality prints. | | | | pictures of 5-8 Megapixels although cheaper |
| Now onto file size, generally pictures with more | | | | cameras, such as mobile phones cameras are only |
| pixels are bigger in file size, for instance the | | | | 1-5 megapixels, more expensive cameras have |
| average picture taken with a 6 megapixel camera | | | | 8+ megapixels, of the cameras that are currently |
| will be approximately 3 megabytes, whereas the | | | | on sale right now, the king of the megapixel world |
| same image taken with a 12 megapixel camera | | | | is the Canon EOS 1DS Mark III, as it has a |
| will be approximately 6 megabytes, because it | | | | whopping 21 Megapixel sensor, so images taken |
| contains twice as many pixels. Although the file | | | | with this camera will contain 21,000,000 pixels. |
| size of your photograph will differ between | | | | Pixels are what makes up every digital image we |
| photographs depending on how much varying | | | | see, they can be described simply as a single |
| detail is in the image, for example if I take a | | | | block or square of colour, every block of colour is |
| picture of a busy city scene with lots of people | | | | known as 1 pixel. |