![]() Is there a $30,000 difference? You tell me. Heck, you can compare the $30,000+ Leica S2 vs a $2000 ♔3 setup right here. So it’s always seemed a little silly to me when people argue which camera is better, especially when the differences are almost negligible for similarly priced cameras. Unless you’re shooting with a $55,000+ Hasselblad or a $30,000+ Leica S2, there’s always a better camera. Let’s start with a bang and go a step higher and by comparing Micro Four Thirds to a $30,000+ setup. It’s easy on paper to talk about why one sensor is better than another, but instead of talking about it, let’s look examples. Thus, circling back to my point on pixel peeping, there are details (pixels) in a photo that you won’t notice unless you’re zoomed in 200% on Photoshop.ĭon’t get me wrong, there are other advantages of having a larger sensor, all things equal you should have higher ISO capabilities, dynamic range, color, etc… but then why do most pros argue that 35mm reigns king? Why not medium format when the smallest medium format sensor is at least 3x bigger than full frame? Why stop there, there are large format cameras out there. On the high frequency, you see all the details that makeup Albert Einstein, such as wrinkles, facial hair, etc. But as distance increases, our eyes can’t pick up those details. You see Albert Einstein, right? If you don’t you need to get your eyes checked, as this image can be used to assess your vision. Nonetheless, now walkaway from your computer, at about 10ft you should start to see Marilyn Monroe. Visual acuity has its limitations – If you have a 50″ 4k TV and you’re standing 10ft away, you’re not going to notice a difference: Now Facebook is notorious for affecting image quality but it’s not a resolution issue, it’s a compression issue because they’re trying to shrink the file size down from multiple megabytes down to a few hundred kilobytes.Ģ. Photos viewed large on Facebook have a width of 960px, on Instagram they just upgraded to 1080×1080, or about 1.2MPs. That means whether your camera can produce 10mp, or 50mp photos, they’re going to look the same on your display.Īnd when you upload photos to the web, they’re often resized for optimal page speed. Even if you had one of the best 4k displays, that’s about 8 megapixels. Resolution and Megapixels – A standard 1080p HDTV or monitor has a resolution of 1920×1080, or about 3.1 megapixels. And that’s an important distinction I’d like to go over before we move on to comparisons.ġ. ![]() But we’re not looking at pixels, we’re looking at pictures. And that might be true at the pixel level. ![]() One recurring theme in photography circles is that because of the smaller sensor, it can’t quite produce the quality a full frame sensor can.
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