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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4306898, member: 19463"]We will have to agree to disagree on this. The cell phone cameras in my experience suffer greatly from software trying to make up for tiny or plastic lenses and tiny sensors. Cell phones take great photos when you have one on you but left the huge camera at home. Coins are not in a hurry, don't move or sting and benefit greatly for those who can see and care about decent photos. I posted that Nikon 990 coin for a reason. If your photos are not better than that 3MP image, it is most likely you and not the camera that needs upgrading unless, of course you are using a 'camera' with a lens smaller than a pea and a sensor that requires tweezers to pick up. This chart compares sensor sizes (NOT pixel counts) of various cameras. The last two in the last row are what is used in cell phones; the middle row right pair and bottom row left pair covers most point and shoot cameras; the first 6 are for DSLR and mirrorless cameras. </p><p>Size, not pixel count, matters. </p><p><img src="https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/ec4061c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1484+0+0/resize/1132x840!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewatlas-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Farchive%2Fcamera-sensor-size-12.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4306898, member: 19463"]We will have to agree to disagree on this. The cell phone cameras in my experience suffer greatly from software trying to make up for tiny or plastic lenses and tiny sensors. Cell phones take great photos when you have one on you but left the huge camera at home. Coins are not in a hurry, don't move or sting and benefit greatly for those who can see and care about decent photos. I posted that Nikon 990 coin for a reason. If your photos are not better than that 3MP image, it is most likely you and not the camera that needs upgrading unless, of course you are using a 'camera' with a lens smaller than a pea and a sensor that requires tweezers to pick up. This chart compares sensor sizes (NOT pixel counts) of various cameras. The last two in the last row are what is used in cell phones; the middle row right pair and bottom row left pair covers most point and shoot cameras; the first 6 are for DSLR and mirrorless cameras. Size, not pixel count, matters. [IMG]https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/ec4061c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1484+0+0/resize/1132x840!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewatlas-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Farchive%2Fcamera-sensor-size-12.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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