the size of captured picture

[ber_ard]

Hi everyone, i am new here. Recently I have bought a new xperia zl. Actually, love the phone.

Oh, ya, after buying, i updated it to the last software available. After updating, I tried to take some pictures with it.

I was surprised that the picture size is only around 2.3 mb. My xperia arc with 8 Megapixel can produce a picture, the size of which is about 2.3 mb. Is there anything wrong with ZL?

[Uliwooly]

there's nothing wrong with your phone

try different settings and places, I get pictures from 1MB to almost 5MB with my Xperia Z, it has to do with a lot of factors (colors and light in the picture).

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[Uliwooly · Accepted solution]

here is some info

http://www.techhive.com/article/240271/everything_you_want_know_about_megapixels_megabytes_and_dpi.h...

Megapixels are a general guide to the size of the photo, as measured by the number of pixels it includes. Megapixels is a strong indicator of quality in the sense that it helps you know how large the photo can be safely printed--more megapixels equals a larger print--but it doesn't really tell you anything about the quality of the camera's sensor or its lens. And other factors, like a high level of JPEG compression, can affect the quality as well.

Megabytes tells you how much space a photo takes up on your hard drive, and has nothing to do with your camera's megapixels. The same photo, saved at different JPEG quality levels, will yield wildly different file sizes in megabytes.

http://www.canonblogger.com/2011/08/08/megabytes-versus-megapixels/

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[ber_ard]

Hi, uliwooly, thanks for replying.

I always think that bigger "megapixel", bigger picture size will be

Thanks for your explaination.

[Uliwooly]

anytime