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by jerryX 1155 days ago
Many smartphones now have 200MP e.g. allowing to crop, in astronomy they count in gigapixels ...
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A 200MP smartphone is a nonsensical idea, their lenses are not big enough to utilize that many pixels. Even if it was actually possible, that 200MP is getting auto compressed the moment you message or upload it anywhere. I'm asking about legitimate uses.