Alright here we go, MLA-cited, single-spaced, master-thesis dissertation incoming...
I want to preface my thoughts below, it is not fair to compare this sensor with say a Sony Alpha camera. But being a programmable sensor/something I can use myself I would like to get the most out of it and be happy with the results. Which again I want to know if it's a technical limitation or skill issue on my part. It's a moving goal post thing too, at one point 8MP was pretty great.
This is the thing, I know that 12 MP is less than 42 MP. But there is also a certain number where if you don't zoom in the number shouldn't matter. My number is around 4K eg. I mentioned the 3440x1440 display I have where I fill it with the image for a desktop background.
Anyway I also am aware of the lens's resolving power varies and the pixel size where lens are designed for specific sensors. I had a discussion with someone and they said this:
I still have to do manual setting too, all this time I have been shooting in auto. I also believe the best lens for the HQ cam is the blue ring one with a 10MP resolving power.
Anyway right now this is the main camera I shoot with, whatever body I design which I have another one in the works already after I finish the software for this one.
This is probably a bad comparison, I'm limited by the 500kb upload size. I took the full res images eg. 4056x3050 or whatever, and zoomed them on my 1440p monitor same zoom level (see edges) of photo preview app.
All three of these images were taken with the 10MP 16mm blue ring lens. It seems like things that are up close/big look way better than far away/tiny, which yeah is that just reality you know, distortion in the air, motion... or is it megapixel count... I might just not be understanding something here eg. a photography fundamental concept. Anyway I'll keep going out, doing more photography sessions.
The blue branches photo shows it is possible to get good branch photos, although this is a lot less "interlacing" of branches/bigger. I was closer to this tree than the lake one with the Geese. I unfortunately do not have the F-stop/distance values so not a fair comparison.
It might be the pin cusion/variant type distortion on the lens too where the center looks best and gets worse outwards.
I do have the full res images in this imgur link.
https://imgur.com/a/qwM9DXw (imgur makes the images smaller btw)
The train image is from a Canon TV-Zoom 15-75mm it looks promising in quality
I want to preface my thoughts below, it is not fair to compare this sensor with say a Sony Alpha camera. But being a programmable sensor/something I can use myself I would like to get the most out of it and be happy with the results. Which again I want to know if it's a technical limitation or skill issue on my part. It's a moving goal post thing too, at one point 8MP was pretty great.
This is the thing, I know that 12 MP is less than 42 MP. But there is also a certain number where if you don't zoom in the number shouldn't matter. My number is around 4K eg. I mentioned the 3440x1440 display I have where I fill it with the image for a desktop background.
Anyway I also am aware of the lens's resolving power varies and the pixel size where lens are designed for specific sensors. I had a discussion with someone and they said this:
This sensor seems to do well with large, same-color objects like close ups or buildings. Part of it is the F stop eg. Go F8 or higher to make everything in focus. The other part I think is just this sensor/size of the pixels. I like the HQ cam since it's programmable/accessible to people that don't work much with embedded systems but I wonder how far I can go with it, or is it a skill issue on my part....camera has colour filter array which means that each pixel sees only a portion of the spectrum ("red, green, blue") and the colour photo is recontructed from sparse luminance and chrominance information using something called demosaicing. This mens that things like thin branches crossing each other may well end up looking a bit suboptimal, while simple features like the big leaves are really easy for demosaicing process to handle well.
I still have to do manual setting too, all this time I have been shooting in auto. I also believe the best lens for the HQ cam is the blue ring one with a 10MP resolving power.
Anyway right now this is the main camera I shoot with, whatever body I design which I have another one in the works already after I finish the software for this one.
This is probably a bad comparison, I'm limited by the 500kb upload size. I took the full res images eg. 4056x3050 or whatever, and zoomed them on my 1440p monitor same zoom level (see edges) of photo preview app.
All three of these images were taken with the 10MP 16mm blue ring lens. It seems like things that are up close/big look way better than far away/tiny, which yeah is that just reality you know, distortion in the air, motion... or is it megapixel count... I might just not be understanding something here eg. a photography fundamental concept. Anyway I'll keep going out, doing more photography sessions.
The blue branches photo shows it is possible to get good branch photos, although this is a lot less "interlacing" of branches/bigger. I was closer to this tree than the lake one with the Geese. I unfortunately do not have the F-stop/distance values so not a fair comparison.
It might be the pin cusion/variant type distortion on the lens too where the center looks best and gets worse outwards.
I do have the full res images in this imgur link.
https://imgur.com/a/qwM9DXw (imgur makes the images smaller btw)
The train image is from a Canon TV-Zoom 15-75mm it looks promising in quality
Statistics: Posted by jcun4128 — Sat Feb 21, 2026 12:04 am