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Tag Archives: Sensor Sizes
The Great Pixel Race
Quantity of pixels:
Quantity of sensor pixels is just not as important a measure as people seem to think. In reality as long as you have a camera that’s 8mb+ you’re good to at least 8″X12″print sizes (roughly A4) at serious resolution! I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve needed to print larger than that for a client…a commercial photographer working on campaigns has vastly different imaging needs, and for them enlargements may be the rule rather than the exception…which is why we have medium format digitals!
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