Does the number of Mega Pixels in your camera determine the bluriness of the image?

Question

if you take a picture with your digital camera that has 9.1 megapixels, when you set the picture as your desktop background will it be blury or very clear?

Answer 1

Assuming the picture to begin with was clear, it would depend on the size of your desktop. If your desktop resolution was larger than the size of the image, then the image would be stretched to cover your desktop (assuming you have changed this setting) and therefore appear slightly blurry.

However you have a 9.1 Mpx camera and that's good enough to cover standard wide screen resolutions upto 1920 pixels which would be quite a large 21" monitor.

Answer 2

Pixels have nothing to do with blurriness ... that has to do with camera movement ... not the resolution of the sensor.

Read this to understand pixel count better

http://kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm

NOTE:  Are the photos taken with your unknown camera with a 9MP sensor all soft or just some of them?  

Which camera and  model are you using?

Panasonic? Sony? Sanyo?

Answer 3

That is a pretty big resolution that you might have to squeeze it to fit your desktop background. "Bluriness" would be caused by not enough light or unsteady shot. You are not going to get a good resolution if you shot it with 3mp and end up stretching it to fit your desktop background.  You could just experiment the size of your picture from 5 - 9.1 mp to see what looks good. When I use a 10 mp picture as a background, and I end up squeezing it, the picture image is a bit distorted. They don't get blurry, just distorted. Hope this helps.

Answer 4

If the photo was in focus when it was taken, it should be clear.  However, just like any camera, when you're moving while taking the shot, it can be blurry.