Camera Settings

[jmorton10]

Originally Posted by animez

the pic quality between the two phones is pretty much the same. Neither is very good, but occasionally the stars align and you get a great pic.

exactly & it has nothing to do with how many megapixels the sensor is.

These tiny little sensors have everything going against them when you are trying to take a quality pic. Making the resolution higher is noting but a gimmick/selling feature really (like the imagio & its five megapixels)

I have a pic of my daughter hanging on the wall in my family room that is enlarged to 24" x 36", mounted & framed. The quality is absolutely STUNNING (everyone who sees it is blown away by the quality). It is a creamy smooth picture with absolutey zero digital noise etc.

The funny thing is, it was taken with a three magapixel camera. It obviously wasn't taken with a three megapixel camera phone however. I do IT work, but part of my job also involves photography & I use pro quality equipment. I also have a portrait studio at my house as a side business.

The three megapixel camera that took that pic was a pro quality digital SLR (Canon D30). It was taken about eight years ago. I don't remember how much the camera was worth at the time (I don't have it anymore), but the lens alone was $1500.00

The sensor in that three megapixel camera was HUGE compared to a camera phone even though they call them both three megapixel. The sensor in the TP's is smaller than a pencil eraser (A LOT smaller) & the sensor in that old pro camera looked like a large postage stamp.

~John