The biggest advantage in having a high megapixel camera is the ability to crop the images and still end up with a high resolution image. My Canon R5 is 45 megapixels. There is a limit to how much you can crop, obviously, but with the help of post-processing software, it's remarkable what can be done. On Caddo Lake in Texas, I captured this migratory summer tanager with 700mm of focal length. Because it's such a small bird and because it was relatively far away, it ended up being very, very small in the frame. I cropped it from 128 megabytes down to 9 megs so it filled a significant part of the frame, and then I applied the magic. I used Topaz Gigapixel AI at 4x magnification, and then I applied Topaz DeNoise AI as well as Topaz Sharpen AI. The image was transformed into a perfectly acceptable photo. My settings were 1/1000, f/10, and 10,000 ISO. Compared to yesteryear, the technology today is brilliant in allowing us to capture technically superior images even in the most daunting of circumstances. What a great time to be a photographer!
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