Resolution Tips for Digital Cameras

Video Transcript

"So to put this in perspective for you, a lot of the cameras out there are touting this has 12.5 megapixels but it's $500 dollars. Where this was a $200 dollar camera which I'm really impressed that it already has 7.1. So to put this in perspective 2 megapixel camera can actually print a really decent 4x6 image. So if all you are ever going to print is a 4x6 image you don't need to buy anything more than a 2 megapixel camera. Now 3 megapixels you can make a pretty good 5x7, 6 to 8 megapixels will get you very good 8x10's or if you really want to go all the way up to 16x22 then you are going to need a 24 megapixel camera and that is definitely professional level, none of the point and shoots have 24 megapixels yet. So the other reason that you need to have high resolution is sometimes when you take that picture you're going to want to do some cropping, so maybe your subject isn't in the right place or you want to really just get into their head and their shoulders, so if you buy a camera like for instance this one is 7.1 so I can easily do an 8x10 which means I could very easily crop out a very small part of that picture and do a very good 4x6. So just keep that in mind when you're out there shopping, that more megapixels doesn't necessarily mean better for you."