Blog of Kim Loon

Digital camera has made it much easier for us to take tons and tons of photos. Most of the time, we view the photos using the computer monitor. A 2 Megapixel photo is usually sufficient and we do not need to take the photos at 5, 7, 10 or even 12 Megapixel. Furthermore, shooting the photos at a lower resolution means that the photo file is much smaller, allowing more photos to be stored and easier sending via e-mails.

I believe to shoot the photos at the camera’s maximum resolution at all time. Here are my reasons so.

Make Full Use of the Sensor
The most common difference between a newer camera model and an old one is the megapixel number. A newer camera model can take photo at a higher megapixel than an old one. So we buy a new camera, especially to replace the old one, we are effectively paying for the higher resolution.

This makes logical sense that we have to make full use of our money. And to do so, is to take photo at the maximum resolution available by the camera.

Never Know When We Need It
Recently, a friend was asked to submit high resolution photos at an event for internal public relations material. This friend has shot all his pictures with 600 pixels on the long side. This limited the photos’ use as public relations material.

We never know when we need the high resolution photo. We could be needed it for some publicity material or even just for printing. And the quality of the print depends on the resolution of the photo taken. Furthermore, storage space is getting cheaper by the days.

So this also makes logical sense that we take the photo at maximum resolution, just in case we need to use it.

Flexibility for Post Processing
When we take the photo at maximum resolution, this gives us more flexibility to do post processing. A high resolution photo allow us to easily crop the portion we want, rotate the photo or tune the photo without losing much quality.

Furthermore, we can easily reduce the resolution of the photo using post processing but modern post processing technology still has its limitation to increase the photo resolution.

Overall, the above are the reasons, why I believe in taking digital photos at maximum resolution.