Do Megapixels Matter?

by Aaron Hockley

Check out this blog post on the New York Times site where they’ve taken three different sized images — 13 megapixels, 8 megapixels, and 5 megapixels — and blown them up to 16×24 then asked John Q. Public to tell the difference.

Folks couldn’t tell.

As the commenters rightly point out, there are other factors which aren’t divulged in the experiment, but regardless of those other factors, it reiterates something I’ve long believed and stated: megapixels aren’t the most important thing.

Oh… and you railfans might notice a familiar name down on comment #51 on the site…

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