As I embark on another supercar photography commission in East Lothian at the weekend, it is time to dig out my old sports camera which is still the best for professional sports photography, even with all the advancements in technology and the reason for mentioning this is mainly due to our topic today, ie the obsession with high pixilation in modern digital cameras and why it isn’t always the best. All professional photographers I know in Scotland and beyond will strive to get the best gear they can and this is only sensible, but you should never purchase any new gear unless you can justify that it will definitely bring in more money for your business and high pixilation is not necessarily the answer, this comes on a day when it is rumoured that Canon will release an 80MP camera early next year. Here are a few reasons why this may not be the best thing for photographers:
- You may have to upgrade your pc, otherwise it will take ages to edit the photos
- Do you need very large prints, if not don’t upgrade to higher pixilation. I had a Fuji S3 6-12MP, which resulted in wonderful A3 plus prints
- Some cameras have high pixel counts, that doesn’t make them good, it is the quality of the glass that counts
- You may need to buy extremely high quality glass, otherwise it is a waste of time upping the pixel count
- Unless you need to crop, why will you need higher pixilation
- It could affect your frames per second in continuous
So don’t be tempted. I will leave you with a shot taken from my modest 10MP camera
