Viewed 38k times. Improve this question. Gaurav Agarwal Gaurav Agarwal 1 1 gold badge 1 1 silver badge 5 5 bronze badges. Just to satisfy normal human curiousity? Or is there something where it matters in which way megapixels are counted? Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. About a million. Improve this answer. Community Bot 1. My thermoimager is 20kPixels, and Basler racer series are kPixel. That is as useful as MPixels.
Or in Baslers case it is more useful than the usual MP measure as they dont mix up 2 dimensions in an unrecoverable manner. I stand corrected. However, it's not a term in general photography. So a 21MP camera would be a 20MP camera in base No way the manufacturers would advertise it as a 20MP camera, though, so I bet they agree, haha. Not that it matters if it really has a few more or less pixels though.
Right, exactly. At I completely agree about it only really mattering when you're getting to significant factors. Which of the currently 8 other answers is "the" other answer?
Show 3 more comments. True but not the whole story. A sensor with 1,, pixels would also be a "1 megapixel" sensor. The precise difference isn't important. So if you round a from 9. Itai Itai k 10 10 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. Pete Pete 3, 1 1 gold badge 19 19 silver badges 25 25 bronze badges. The corruption of the terms "kilo" and "mega" made sense for RAM and other electronics that were forced by their physical structure to be a power of 2 in size.
As sizes increase and the difference between the powers of 2 and powers of 10 increase, this becomes more confusing. I consider it an unfortunate mistake of history that powers of 2 were ever used. To answer you have to understand what a pixel is. Wikipedia : In digital imaging, a pixel, or pel picture element is a physical point in a raster image, or the smallest addressable element in a display device.
Andy M Andy M 7 7 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges. Olin Lathrop Olin Lathrop Same applies to the LCD screen. A "1 million dot" screen only has kish pixels. Peter pete Peter pete 4 4 silver badges 9 9 bronze badges. Megapixels are helpful in marketing digital cameras, because it is easier to say, "6.
However, while megapixels are important, it is helpful to know the other specifications of a camera as well. For example, shutter speed, shooting modes, start-up time, flash quality, and color accuracy can also make a big difference in the camera's performance. After all, it doesn't matter how many megapixels your camera has if all your pictures turn out blurry and have poor color.
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