Randomness I miss

Rainy days seem to make some memories return. I happened upon some old old rusty and dust-covered writing I had done from back in the day when I was much more hippie and much more hopelessly romantic. But time helps fade that away.

I miss summer evenings on a hammock. Laughing til I cry at late night television. Walking aroung campus soaked in warm rain. I kinda even miss feeling blissfully ignorant of what the real world's all about.

But back to reality. It's fun to think about what is and what could have been.

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photos n MPs

Digital cameras have always used megapixels as a primary statistic for marketing. It's been a good one. It's a simple number that represents how many million pixels can be recorded per photograph. But as MPs get higher and higher, their change in value decreases.

So I put together this chart to show how much height of a printed photograph (300 dpi) you'd get per megapixel for a 4:3 ratio image:

When cameras used to sell with lower MPs (2-5 MP), the difference was significant. Nowadays, the difference is more constant per increase in MP.

Here's another, showing a photograph's height per MP. Keep in mind that you can double these heights (150 dpi) and still have a very good photograph.


I wanted to put these charts out here 1) because I was playing with Google's spreadsheet charts, and 2) to show that the average camera nowadays (I'll go out on a limb and guess it's around 7 MP) is more than enough to print big photos. Additionally, I'd like to further discount MPs' marketing privileges by pointing out that as MPs increase in cameras, the lenses are more or less staying the same: small and compact. Just because you're throwing more MPs behind the lens doesn't mean the lens is letting in better light.