By You just bought a 48-megapixel smartphone or mirrorless camera, but your photos are coming out at 12 megapixels. Before you assume something’s broken, understand this: your camera is likely using sensor binning, and it’s probably making your images better, not worse.
Sensor binning combines data from multiple adjacent pixels into one larger “super pixel.” Instead of recording information from four separate 1-micron pixels, your sensor merges them into a single 2-micron pixel equivalent. This process sacrifices resolution but delivers significant improvements in low-light performance, reduced noise, and faster…
