Megapixel calculator

A "megapixel" is one million (1.000.000) pixels. Enter the pixel dimensions of your photo, camera, screen or tv, and calculate how many megapixels that is.

Calculate megapixels

  • Size = 4096 x 4096 = 16,777,216 pixels
  • Pixel count = 16.78 million pixels
  • Resolution = 16.78 mega pixels
  • Width / Height: 1
  • "square"
  • Type of aspect ratio = "Square"
  • Type of aspect ratio = "Square" (vertical)
  • A full frame sensor would be 24 x 24 mm (1)
  • Pixel density would be 114 pixels/mm or 2890 pixels/inch (dpi)
  • Pixel pitch: 8.8 micron (rather large)

Calculate (file) size

Uncompressed RAW/BMP

TIFF Monochrome 8bit/pixel16.78 MB
RAW/DNG 10 bits/pixel20.97 MB
RAW/DNG 12 bits/pixel25.17 MB
RAW/DNG 14 bits/pixel29.36 MB
RAW/DNG 16 bits/pixel33.55 MB
BMP RGB 3x8 bit/pixel50.33 MB
OPENEXR RGBA 4x16 bit/pixel134.22 MB

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Background

For decades, advances in camera technology have been measured in 'megapixels', although more pixels doesn't always mean better quality. The same metric can also be used to describe the resolution of photos, or digital screens. This megapixel calculator brings it all together. Calculate, compare, visualise and estimate.

References

Wikipedia: Pixels & megapixels
Wikipedia: Common resolutions
Camera Resolution explained
Canon RAW, sRAW, mRAW

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