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MEGAPIXELS, resolution: how much does it count?

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zorba:
Hallo,

How much is it important to upload images in high resolution? And why?
How many megapixels make sense? 20? 30? 50? More? Why?
If you want to answer, please add your years of experience, just for our information and if you please! :)

Brasilnut:

--- Quote ---Hallo,

How much is it important to upload images in high resolution? And why?
How many megapixels make sense? 20? 30? 50? More? Why?
If you want to answer, please add your years of experience, just for our information and if you please!
--- End quote ---

SS has a 30 megs limit.

Imo it's a bit overkill to submit huge files when they will be used for web-usage 95% of the time + you'll be paid in subs.

Microstockphoto:
30mb is not 30mp

a 30mp image could easily be under 30mb

high resolution images give you the opportunity to crop in different ways and still have enough pixels left for decent size images to submit to the agencies.

Nikon's 36mp camera gives you a lot of flexibility. but I find that 22.3mp is enough to play around with

also, if you have noisy 36mp images or soft images at 100%, you can reduce the size by 50%, and still have a sharp, noise free appearing image at 18mp

substancep:
Never found low mp images to sell differently in terms of usd per image. Some of my best selling images are even at 4.1 mp, which is practically at shutterstock's 4 mp minimum. In terms of cropping, noise reduction, etc. megapixels give you more options. Storage will be an issue too, especially if you're "trigger happy."

unnonimus:
you said: "SS has a 30 megs limit."

I am pretty sure their limit is 80 mp.

I uploaded an 80mp photo as a test.

The issue I see is that many companies are upresezing photos (which are being purchased), and that there are few uses for high res imagery. Most photos are probably being purchased for blogs, which do not need to be high res.

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