Mega Pixels??

Question

This is odd... I Was taking pictures one day, and decided to see which camera was better, and i took a picture with my Motorola Razr[1.3 Mp], and then with my digitial camera[4.0 Mp]. The Razr was better, even though the camera has more Mp!!! Why does it do that?

Answer 1

How do you define better? I'm sure the clarity couldn't have been as good, but maybe the lighting has an impact. Or if you used the digital zoom on the camera, that lowers quality pretty drastically.

Answer 2

Wrong. Megapixels mean nothing to the clearity of the picture. It just tells you how big you can blow it up. The sensor of the Razr could be better than the sensor in your digital camera. How old is your camera? If it is ancient, like 1 or 2 years after digital cameras came out, then the Razor probably does have better sensor than your camera. Or, you had the camera on the wrong settings, thats why Point and Shoot Cameras take less of professional quality pictures because the camera does not always choose the right modes to shoot in.

This however is a bad thing because you are now limited to how large you can blow it up without making it look really bad. The digital camera you can blow it up to about a 8X11 size pretty nicely. The Razor however it is going to be a bit harder to blow up to a 8X11 size. You will notice the pixelation at that size.

Answer 3

I'm thinking with Kory here. Perhaps your 4 MP camera was set on Auto ISO and selected 400 or even 800 due to poor lighting conditions. This will really deteriorate the image quality. I've got a couple of 1.3 MP RAZR pics that I think are absolutely great - so long as you don't try to enlarge them too much. One is just the sky and some clouds and some colors, so there is not much detail to get chopped up with pixelation.

Answer 4

6 mp is best meaning the little tiny squares pixels digitals thingys that make up the picture so the higher number the better it is..