Just wondering- my son sent me a photo of a woodstove in the sellers yard. Clarity and detail were very, very good and the pic was taken with a 3 mp phone camera. I have 24 mp with my 3300 and the pic he took was close to what I could do. How much MP is overkill to the human eye? Paul
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Ah, great question. I will say that the answer is in the output. If you just want to send the picture by email, 2mp is more than enough. But if you want to make a large print, then you need more mp. A computer screen is not a high resolution viewing device and neither are our Tv, compared with a print. You probably can learn a lot more with uncle google about resolution and printing size.
You need more than MPs to make a great photograph. Some couldn't photograph their way out of a paper bag with a 36MP D810 , while some can take stunning shots with an iPhone.:indecisiveness:
Similar to what others were saying, megapixels is a marketing scam for the ill informed. Most people will never print their images. For these people three megapixels is overkill. Marketers sell the ill informed on the idea that more megapixels makes for a better camera.
For those of us that print, and I mean print large, more megapixels comes in to play. I do prints as large as 60 inches and 24 megapixels is a factor for me because I print.
As pointed out earlier, the display you're viewing the "lower" end camera images on has more than enough pixels to give a great "digital" image. Start printing and going larger and larger and you will see where the lower megapixel image falls apart.