Megapixels Are Overrated: All We Want Is Awesome Image Quality

I can’t begin to count the number of times I have taken a picture with my smartphone and thought, “Man that looks great!” Only a handful of times, however, has the quality of a photo taken with a phone’s camera served as passable when viewed at full size. To date, I can recall no more than a dozen pictures that are really worth keeping, based on quality (not sentimental value). By that, I mean only an extremely small percentage of the pictures I take with my smartphones end up as wallpapers on my laptop or get more use than sharing once and discarding. But that ...

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