David Pogue has a great summary of his work to expose "Breaking The Myth of Megapixels" in the February 8th New York Times. While I don't normally even try to cover the "capture" end of our Printing and Imaging biz, this piece was very much worth reading. Especially interesting to me is his description of his testing dilemma, which he describes in detail.
The essence of his point is that while "Megapixels" are touted among vendors and resellers as if they're a digital camera's ultimate metric of goodness, there are many more important other factors that ultimately make photos good or bad -- and that's just within the camera!
I also like how David using his blog responses to improve his testing!
The essence of his point is that while "Megapixels" are touted among vendors and resellers as if they're a digital camera's ultimate metric of goodness, there are many more important other factors that ultimately make photos good or bad -- and that's just within the camera!
I also like how David using his blog responses to improve his testing!
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The other misconception is that print resolution of a printer indicates the quality. It can often be heard that a 1200 dpi device will be a better quality than a 600 dpi device. While it is true that dpi is a contributing factor to print quality, it is not the determining factor. There are many other factors that go into quality.
Above all, quality is subjective.