During the course of the last decade, consumers have had megapixels, “high definition” and refresh rates thrown at them. I would suggest that the average person would not know about these concepts in any great detail apart from generic marketing that larger numbers are better in terms of picture resolution.
These days, there are fairly decent cameras in mobile phones, digital SLR camera are more affordable than they once were and digital video is becoming more commonplace whilst sharing photos and videos is fairly simple through social media portals.
A couple of months ago, I wrote about how fast flash memory is a must for digital photography. Whilst speed of storage media is important, the size is the other important factor which I briefly touched upon in that entry. It’s all well and good to be able to capture input at a high quality but useless if you run out of space prematurely.
With those things in mind, I think we all have a responsibility to use the highest possible resolution when capturing those special moments and important memories. As time progresses, pixel density will improve to the point where further improvements will have negligible difference and ultimately resolution will serve nothing more than to indicate the size of a screen. As screen resolutions increase toward the point of no further visible improvement, the presentation of videos from years gone by at their original resolution will see them subsequently shrink on screen or will otherwise lack the definition of an image that will natively fit future screens.
Until then, recording in the highest possible resolution today will allow us and future generations to best appreciate these events with the technology that we have available. I’d also encourage people to think about digitising their old photos and analogue videos not only to preserve them but to also prevent these records being lost through a lack of operational devices to play them back as time goes on.
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