how much resolution do you really need for your phone camera? Hi everyone, welcome to my video blog where I talk about all things related to mobile photography. Today's topic is: how much resolution do you really need for your phone camera? You might have seen phone makers advertising their cameras with high megapixel counts, such as 50MP, 100MP, or even 200MP⁶. But what does that mean and how does it affect the quality of your photos? A megapixel (MP) is a count of the number of pixels in an image, where the mega- prefix denotes a million. So an 8MP smartphone camera contains a sensor with 8 million pixels, a 16MP camera has 16 million pixels on its sensor and so on. The more pixels you have, the more detail you can capture in your photos. However, that doesn't mean that higher resolution always equals better quality. There are other factors that influence the performance of your phone camera, such as pixel size, sensor size, aperture, and software processing. Pixel size refer...