The Basics
When you go out to shop for video equipment such as a DVD player, television, or perhaps even a camcorder, one of the things you will be discussing with the sales clerk is the effective video resolution of the device you want to purchase. You’ll be talking in terms of pixels, lines, and other factors related to it. However, for some people, all these crazy numbers and dimensions won’t make much sense.
Getting a handle on the basics will help you get a good idea of what the guy at the store was talking about and what qualities you need to look for when buying your gear. Now, the very first thing you will find in the advertisements of different cameras and video recorders is that they have X number of mega pixels on them. You mostly won’t bother trying to figure out what that is until you actually get serious about purchasing really good equipment.
Getting down to the dirty details, a pixel is something that you usually hear about your computer’s screen. Those who have an idea about computer basics will describe a pixel to you as a component of an image or picture on your computer screen. It is usually described as a dot on your screen. Each image, they would say, is made up of these dots or pixels. The higher the number of pixels per square inch you have the better and finer will be your image quality.
This may not exactly be what is happening or how your camcorder actually records video, but it will help users get the picture on how powerful a certain device is. With that in mind, the original term makes more sense. The word pixel was originally the shortened term for “picture element”. When you purchase a camcorder, you will have to check its effective video resolution, which is the actual video resolution of the device you are purchasing.
Picking Out the Right Effective Video Resolution
One thing is for sure, as the effective video resolution of a camcorder goes up, the higher is the quality of the video it produces. However, the higher the quality of the video produced also means the higher is the device’s price. You generally have to balance the number of pixels you require to your very own video taking skill level and the quality of the images you want to produce.
If you’re just taking videos for your trip to the beach then a video recorder with a 680,000 pixel resolution will do just fine. However, if you’re after crisper and clearer video for special occasions then get one that at least has a one or two mega pixel resolution. If you go higher on the resolution the better are the video and the images you’ll get.
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