I was looking on the BBC’s website today, and noticed one of their “Zoom” images, where basically they provide an image from a current news story, and you can zoom in to the detail. Knowing that my camera takes 18 Megapixel images (5,184 x 3,456), and that the images on the BBC’s website is about 1000 pixels wide, it means the user can zoom into the detail up to 5 times. Detail that is barely visible at the reduced width suddenly becomes aware in the full resolution image.

Take a look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12731778 and look at the building on the left hand side. At first look, you can see the high water line of the Tsunami, but zoom in, and you can see multiple high water lines, this more than likely being from the high tide and low tide effect on the body of water.

Call me a geek, but I do love to pixel peep!