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What is the meaning of Mega pixels?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

MEGA=ONE MILLION

PIXEL=PIcture ELement

If you look closely at or examine with a magnifying glass a computer monitor screen you will see that it is made up of lots and lots of tiny dots. Each dot is an element of the picture or picture element - pixel. Each pixel is controlled by a signal from the computer so it can be turned off or on or made to show a colour. In this way a picture can be built up. The more pixels, the more detail in a photo. Low numbers of pixels in a photo will make a blurry looking photo, whilst many more pixels will give a photo which looks sharp, with lots of small detail able to be seen.

Cameras are graded on the number of pixels that they can reproduce in a photo. The more pixels, the better the camera [usually!].

A camera with 10 megapixel resolution should take far better photos than a camera with only 6 megapixel resolution.

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