wanting to buy a digital camera, been looking on e-bay - they say interpolated to 12mp - is this something to be wary of? its usually interpolated from 3mp. does this mean the pic qual is same as or better than 3mp? thanks!
2007-01-28 07:00:30 · 6 answers · asked by third space 4 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
AVOID!!
When you take a picture on a digital camera, it is made up of lots of dots called pixels. Very simply, a 3 megapixel camera produces a picture with 3 million pixels in it, a 12 megapixel with 12 million pixels etc. Hence a 12 megapixel camera has more quality as there are more unique points of colour to make up the picture
Interpolated in your example means it takes the 3 million pixels, spreads them out and uses some calculations to attempt to make them 12 million pixels by guessing the various colours and light in between them. No camera can do this well enough to make the difference.
I recommend a camera of at least 5MP manufactured by a recognised Japanese company - Sony, Canon, Nikon, Fuji or Casio for example
2007-01-28 21:55:21 · answer #1 · answered by magic_peanuts 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Means that through some facny mathematics (essentially how your digital camera works) it has reconstructed missing/lost/unclear data (e.g. in an over/under exposed photo) and created an image from this iterperlated data.
You might be able to disable this, but i wouldnt reccomend it.
All it tells you usually is that the shooing conditions were not ideal and thus your camera has attempted to digitally compensate. Not a problem unless you need the image for editing on photoshop etc.
Some cameras have a RAW setting, which on my camera at least allows you to use the digital camera without 'intelligent' compensating functions. However again i wouldn't bother turning them off unless its truly essential as they actually do a lot of good - e.g high speed or action shots are ajusted post taking to improove quality.
So the image is the same as a 3mp image, it has just been essentially minorly edited by your camera for optimum image. however on most shots this wont be neccessary
2007-01-28 07:18:34 · answer #2 · answered by bigjonnyt 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interpolated is a gimmick many manifacturers use to sorta "trick" consumers into thinking the pixel count is higher on a camera than it really is. True Optical Pixels or the pixel count of your image sensor is the TRUE number of pixels your camera has to take pictures with. "Interpolated" is actually a software function of the camera to try and make pictures bigger than the pixel count of the camera by dual scanning each image and putting in "filler" pixels if you will to magnify the resulting image...the camera takes a picture..then quickly does a secondary scan to generate filler pixels. 12MP interpolated may be similar filesize as 12MP true image...but when blown up or magnified..you will see the differance.
2016-03-29 06:38:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's a cheat way of making you think that the camera has a higher megapixel count than it actually has. In practical terms, the computer "guesses" what the enlarged pictue would be like by adding its own pixels. It really is rubbish and is best avoided.
2007-01-28 08:03:05 · answer #4 · answered by Jellicoe 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is bad
the camera takes the 3mp picture and guesses what the picture will look like when it is larger.
the picture never turns out to be the way it really looks.
bad - bad - bad
2007-01-28 07:25:28 · answer #5 · answered by Elvis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it was explained that 'interpolated' means it makes up the missing pixels and is less good quality thn the number of pixels it says on it
2007-01-28 07:09:29 · answer #6 · answered by frogg135 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋