To be fair, what you said did not support the conclusion that he reached 9 years ago before the first hundred thousand times it was explained that in photography in general, and especially on smartphones, megapixels is a number that's not even positively correlated with image quality, let alone the single driving factor of excellent camera performance.
If you could reframe your argument in a way that supports the conclusion that nothing except more MP can determine what the best camera is, then it may get read. But probably not.
No, you are right, it honestly does not matter about megapixels. It really is all about the actual hardware and camera software. However, for certain people (especially in certain professions), larger megapixels are needed to blow up images on a large screen... OR for cropping/zooming in (say, a candid photo of a celebrity from afar for a tabloid photo). Again, no way am I saying larger megapixels are superior cameras, but there are benifits. Explain why people would not be happy with a 5MP selfie and complain, but are happy with a 8MP selfie? Better resolution, 5MP might be too small, fine details are pixelated. The LG G5 and V20 has a 8MP wide angle, the complaint was that the resolution is too small, therefore resulting in a pixelated photo when you look closer, but if you're just looking at it on a small smartphone screen, you won't notice (but on a TV, yes you'll notice). Also, the Hubble space telescope only had less than 1 megapixel, WOW amazing right? Well, actually they had to create a mosaic and put together all the photos to form one big one. The upgrade to 16MP made it so much more convenient. Read about it below:
How many megapixels is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Hold on to your seat. The Hubble Space Telescope was developed in the 1970's to provide at least 15 years of service. The custom built Hubble WF/PC-1 cameras, had custom CCD chips with 800x800 pixels, or a total of 640,000 pixels. So the Hubble doesn't even have the equivalent of a 1 megapixel sensor!
In 1993 the cameras were replaced by the WF-PC-2 cameras that were designed to compensate for small optical flaws in the Hubble Telescope's reflector.
Despite this seemingly low resolution, the pictures from the Hubble have been pieced together to produce mosaics as large as 650 megapixels.
Recent (12/2005) news of a 16megapixel camera being tested on earth based telescopes is very exciting because it has the capability to image an entire galaxy in one picture, instead of requiring dozens of individual pictures to be spliced together. Increased sensitivity of the newest sensors will also help to improve the pictures.
Updated: The Wide Field Camera is one of the better ones and consists of two 2048 x 4096 pixel CCDs, which gives it about 16.8 megapixels.
In Chile, a new 3,200 megapixel telescope will be able to map the entire Galaxy, expected to be running by 2022.
Pixels don't matter? Or do they? You decide.
Again, not saying bigger is better overall, just that there's benifits of having it (also cons of having it too). I like to zoom/crop images a lot and take nature/outdoor photos, a smaller megapixel camera results in pixelated images when zoomed in. A Reddit user claimed that the Note 8 telephoto was fake, he concluded it was just mostly software trickery.. basically the software was just zooming in.. pixelation occurs with a smaller MP camera when zooming in (Note 8 telephoto was weak IMO). The LG V series opted for a 16MP because they wanted a focus on video recording, when you zoom in on a video, you need higher megapixels otherwise the video will be pixelated.
Calling me biased but you seem to be biased too BC you have probably a Samsung/Apple/Pixel/Moto/HTC which has a 12MP. No doubt their cameras are good (maybe better than LG), however LG cameras were designed for a different purpose rather than simply taking everyday photos/selfies and posting it on social media.
Again, I'll repeat again, I'm not saying megapixels are overall better, just that there's benifits such as less pixelation when zooming in. When Samsung went from their 16MP camera on the Galaxy S6 to the 12MP camera on the Galaxy S7, I immediately recognized a difference.. yeah cool the camera is faster and low light is better, but I can see with my naked eyes the difference. Some people won't and some people don't care, again they use their cameras for the basics such as for social media and non-commercial use.
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