Photography is above brands

[Dave Humphries]

Co-incidentally, this point was re-inforced to me just the other day ... I purchased a 40" LED TV for tethered shooting in my new studio. As one would expect, it's wide-screen and high definition ... so how many megapixels to you think would be needed to take advantage of this "cutting edge" technology? 21MP? 45MP? Nope ... just 2MP will do it quite nicely thank you. I'm sure there's a message there somewhere.

Ah, that's because moving pictures overload the brain with temporal content so it doesn't see how bad 2 MP looks as a still.

That said, we all use 1920 x 1080 (or less) HD/wide screens on 'normal' computers and have to use 1:1 to pixel peep a 5000 x 3500 still - equivalent to reading a newspaper through a letterbox.

[Colin Southern]

Ah, that's because moving pictures overload the brain with temporal content so it does see how bad 2 MP looks as a still.

That said, we all use 1920 x 1080 (or less) HD/wide screens on 'normal' computers and have to use 1:1 to pixel peep a 5000 x 3500 still - equivalent to reading a newspaper through a letterbox.

Hi Dave,

I'm assuming you meant "doesn't" see how bad etc?

In any case, I was talking about still shots - they look just fine from a normal viewing distance (just a few feet) away - even the camera's smallest JPEG setting is STILL bigger than the screen!

[Dave Humphries]

I'm assuming you meant "doesn't" see how bad etc?!

Ya got me there, corrected in original post.