Posts tagged: camera

Photography

Megapixels: The More the Merrier?

September 19, 2008 "Oh man, they just came out with a 6 megapixel camera!! I have to get that!"  ....Remember those days? You'd go out and buy a small point-and-shoot camera that was maybe 4mp, then a month later the 6mp came out and you just HAD to have it? It's been ingrained in our brains that megapixels (mp) are such a huge deciding factor on everything related to digital image quality. This may have been true way back in the day, but times have Read On...

Digital Filmmaking

Why Are We So Concerned About Resolution Anyway?

September 15, 2008   I’ve been obsessed with doubling frame rates for almost ten years.   It was 1999, and I was a freshman in film school. I’d yet to drink the inexpensive, instant-gratification Kool-Aid that is digital filmmaking. I’d never shot a frame of film, or experienced the disappointment of getting film back from the lab over-exposed or soft (after dropping a hundo on stock/processing). To be fair to film, I’d also yet Read On...