Viewpoint Dan Mold

Fifty years on since the dawn of digital, is it time to forget megapixels and use a different metric to compare cameras? writes Dan Mold

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Even the best camera phones for photography can boast ridiculously high resolutions, with smartphones like the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra packing a monstrous resolution of 200MP. When digital cameras started to become mainstream around the turn of the millennium, with cameras like Canon's first DSLR the EOS D30, camera manufacturers needed a metric to differentiate between models that would make it easy to understand why one model is better than another. Whilst this was useful back in the day due to the manufacturing limitations of cramming pixels onto a digital sensor, these days I think it's a bit of an outdated metric.