[plugsnpixels]

So did you get a new 20+ megapixel DLSR for Christmas? It’s easy to forget we were shooting single megapixels not too long ago.

Here’s one of my 1-megapixel Kodak DC265 images from 1999 (taken at the Claremont Colleges in Claremont CA). First the original (reduced overall size for the forum), then with post-processing (Topaz Impression and some PS tweaks) to bring it back to life.

And some more fun with a 4mp Minolta DiMAGE S404 image of a garden statue from 2002, again with similar post processing.

[EdMak]

Good exercise, personally I prefer the originals. Happy New Year. Ed.

[plugsnpixels]

Thanks Ed! I hear that a lot about the originals; I must be a better photographer (and less of a photo artist) than I thought ;-)

[EnglishBob]

This is one taken on the day I bought my first digital Camera, also a 1 mp Kodak, DC 200+. Taken September 1998.

Original Image first, and reprocessed today for the 2nd.

[EnglishBob]

Wow, 1 MP doesn't give us much to work with LOL, that looks awful once uploaded.

[MrB]

Good exercise, personally I prefer the originals. Happy New Year. Ed.

+1

Cheers.
Philip

[MrB]

I never owned a 1MP camera so this is an (under-exposed) image from a 2MP Toshiba compact camera in 2002, reprocessed today in PaintShop Pro X8.

Cheers.
Philip

[Jocko]

I started out with the luxury of 3 Megapixels with my Finepix S602 Zoom. Here is one from that time.

Gourock from Lyle Hill - Dec 2004. 1/160 sec, f3.2, ISO 200. Originally processed with first version of Photoshop to retain EXIF data. Recently touched up using Lightroom and Nik Software.

[EdMak]

.9 megapixels, no rear screen, 2002, very basic, make escapes me. Ed.

[plugsnpixels]

Great follow-ups!

Craig, the relatively poor quality of 1-megapixel is why the images cry out for artsy, pixel-smushing post-processing!

I would like to see your scene artsified, with the street sign removed or the image cropped just to the right of it.