Why are cameras getting more and more MP?

I've noticed this especially with Fuji. They now offer 40 MP on APS-C cameras.

While the quality itself does seem to improve with the right lenses, you can't really push the camera to its limits with just any lens. Another thing I find particularly negative is that with such densely packed sensors, diffraction blur sets in much earlier (even at single-digit values). This has more to do with the lens and aperture than with the sensor.

For people who don't always work with an open aperture, this is a disadvantage, for example with landscapes or even macros/close-ups that aren't stacked.

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Pialesb29
2 years ago

Sensors are also further developed, so you shouldn’t see that negative one Alpha 7 IV also has 33 instead of only 24 megapixels and negative one does not look beyond the known

Not Julia Trotti (which has 2), not Mr Wiesner, not Amazing Nature Alpha

And the 7 R V has as far as I know 60

why Sony should finally bring a new APS C

And says Fuji camera is certainly the XT5 which will probably not be groundless for 2000€ Sold the A 7 III almost also

Gazprom228
2 years ago

Digicams especially in mobile phones have no room for optics.

Therefore, the high number of MPs is calculated and the image is also filled with calculations.

With the current cams you can shoot great moon images and Mars in 10 years.

Pialesb29
2 years ago
Reply to  Gazprom228

It’s not about the toy cameras in phones

Uneternal
2 years ago

This does not only have what to do with the lens/glare number, but also with the sensor.

Is that so?

Higher megapixels also provide more and more details than a sensor with fewer megapixels, so I would say okay you see the diffraction due to the higher resolution earlier when you run to 100% but down to the same image size (or printed on the same medium) this is the same again, right?

Of course, you can argue about whether 40MP makes sense on an APS-C sensor. I think it’s as always 50% benefit and 50% pure marketing. As a human being, we burned somewhere in the head, always wanting something better. Fuji has to prove itself against the Canon and Sony plaques, while Sony has so far left its resolution at 24MP, but if the market leader turns on 32.5MP, the others have to jump. I think that’s the main reason.

FlorianH246
2 years ago

Because many still fall into the MP-Wahn and the view that an image would be good if it is still crisp at 500% Crop. Who needs it.

Hundertstel
2 years ago

With higher resolution, even larger and yet clear image enlargements can be printed.

AlphaBlub
2 years ago

So you can promote well. Have you noticed that many 12mp cameras do much better pictures than 48mp?

Fidreliasis
2 years ago

Because the customer wants it so and still thinks more MP = better picture.

But these are the people who only use the full automatic system and wonder why their motives will not be better than with the phone.

For experienced users and professionals, you will get everything from 13-200MP depending on which requirements your ideas have.