Menos es más, también en diseño de producto
Curioso el experimento llevado a cabo por David Pogue, columnista de NYT Tech, sobre el mito de los megapíxeles: But one myth is so deeply ingrained, millions of people waste money on it every year. I’m referring, of course, to the Megapixel Myth. It goes like this: “The more megapixels a camera has, the better the pictures.” It’s a big fat lie. The camera companies and camera stores all know it, but they continue to exploit our misunderstanding. Advertisements declare a camera’s megapixel rating as though it’s a letter grade, implying that a 7-megapixel model is necessarily better than a 5-megapixel model. A megapixel is one million tiny colored dots in a photo. It seems logical that more megapixels would mean a sharper photo. In truth, though, it could just mean a terrible photo made of more dots. A camera’s lens, circuitry and sensor — not to mention your mastery of lighting, composition and the camera’s controls — are far more important factors. Parece lógico que más megapíxels impliquen una mejor foto, pero en realidad puede ser una foto mala con más puntos. En el experimento, Pogue realizó tres fotografías idénticas, a 5, 8 y 13 megapixels respectivamente, y mandó imprimirlas en […]