Think Twice about the Megapixel You Want
13/12/12 19:03 Filed in: Photo Tips
It was announced that Canon would come with a close to 50 Megapixel camera in October, but nothing happened. Yet the rumors are persistent that this “monster” will come and Sony will follow with their own high megapixel camera.
As questioned earlier, do we need or want that? The files are extremely big and the camera is getting slow and so does the upload to your computer.
Adobe guru Scott Kelby found out for himself when he wanted to upload 1,000 raw image files to an external hard drive. He had not considered the file size and the disk space was not enough to upload the 47 GB the 1,000 images were, shot with the Nikon D800. Just for the idea of comparing, 1,000 raw file images shot with the Nikon D3s are 15.5 GB and 1,000 jpeg images shot with the Nikon D700 are 6.5 GB.
Do we really want that?
Ute Sonnenberg for www.rohoyachui.com
information source: PetaPixel