PhotoActive
A podcast about photography and the Apple ecosystem.
Displaying 2 items of PhotoActive with the tag "sensor".
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Episode 141: You Say You Want a Resolution
May 12th, 2023 | 31 mins
apple, cameras, fujifilm, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, leica, lenses, megapixels, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, resolution, sensor
Camera resolution is easy, right? More pixels, more quality, more options, more better! But as soon as you start digging into it, from the iPhone 14 Pro’s 48 megapixels to Sony sensors with 60 megapixels, all sorts of considerations make themselves known. Do you need that much resolution? How did we survive with less than 20 MP in the recent past? We pixel-peep and also look at the big picture.
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Episode 92: Sensors and Megapixels with Richard Butler
May 14th, 2021 | 38 mins 23 secs
apple, camera sensor, cameras, dpreview, iphone, jeff carlson, kirk mcelhearn, lenses, megapixels, photo editing, photo organization, photography, podcast, richard butler, sensor
Camera marketing often leans heavily on sensor size and numbers of megapixels, because those are numbers that are easy to sell. But are they easy to understand? When does an APS-C sensor outperform a medium format one? Are larger pixels better? Should Jeff take the plunge and buy the 100 megapixel Fujifilm GFX 100S? Our guest Richard Butler, technical editor at DPReview, helps clarify how sensor sizes and megapixels affect the way you shoot photos.