Does camera with more pixels creates a better photo?

[plasticman99]

Many other phones except HTC emphasis that the phone has 13M pixels or 20M pixels. Does those phones create better photos? As I know, the phone has small sensor size...

 

[LeoRex]

The answer is... depends....

The number of pixels, while important, is not the only factor. The single most important factor is, as you mention, sensor size. The larger the sensor, the more light the sensor sees, the better chance it has to take a good picture. A tiny sensor with a really high number of pixels crammed into it may not take a picture as nearly good as a larger sensor with far fewer pixels. My wife as an Olympus compact that has a 12M sensor that runs circles around anything you'll get out of a phone.

Now, that isn't to say it isn't useful. HTC screwed up by only putting a 4MP sensor in the M8... Ultrapixels or not, the camera was a huge disappointment.

To be honest, I would have preferred they gone with the 16MP Sony IMX240 sensor that Samsung put in the Note 4.

 

[SpookDroid]

Nope, a bigger MP count does not necessarily mean better pictures. There's sensor size, sensor quality, the lens, even software implementation. You can have two phones by different manufacturers with the same MP count, and the quality of the pictures won't be the same (likely). Just look at iPhones. Yes, iPhones get the camera just right. No arguing there. And yet they produce awesome pictures with less MP than a lot of Androids out there.

 

[LaPera]

No. A reflex camera of 8 MP takes better pictures than a 20 MP phone. The sensor size and the quality and size of the lens are much more important than the MP.

 

[SpookDroid]

Not always, but usually, yes. I've seen cheap Kodak reflex cameras that take worse pictures than my old VGA phones. (OK, I exaggerate, but they were bad). But you make a good point. With old cameras, if you had a VGA pixel count, you didn't get awesome pictures even if you used state-of-the-art lenses and quality sensors. But at the current state of things with everyone that matters offering at least 6 or 8 MP on their cameras, the lenses and sensor quality become much more important than just MP count.

However, it also depends on what you intend to use your picture for. If you're going to print out simple pictures from your vacation to have in an album, 3 to 5MP should be more than enough, but if you intend to use a picture for a very large ad or banner, even if you shoot with a top-of-the-line reflex, if your MP count is too low for that size, you'll still see pixellation or blurry edges.

 

[kirksucks]

a good photographer and subject helps too.

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[SpookDroid]

haha true, we forgot about those! An awesome camera in the hands of a bad photographer can yield bad photos. But an awesome camera in the wrong hands also has a better shot of taking a good, accidental shot than a bad camera

 

[leofenderfan]

rich pixels cannot saves cheap camera lens

 

[MinhJWaterman]

Yes, camera with more pixels creates a better photo. It also depend upon the quality of lenses.