This post is in response to some questions that I have received from both friends and random people browsing my site regarding the Canadian Real Estate Association and the recent ruling of the competition bureau. There appears to be a little bit of confusion about what has changed with respect to content allowed on the MLS here in Canada. (more…)
This post offers up a bit of a technical explanation of why a common cellphone will not work as well as a digital SLR camera when photographing homes for sale. For the most part it comes down to the sensor possessed by the camera. For a cellphone to fit inside the palm of your hand, everything inside of it needs to be very small, including the camera and sensor. This means that the 5 megapixel sensor inside of your cellphone is miniscule, with a huge amount of pixels jammed into it. The modern full frame SLR has a very large sensor, and although it often has much more megapixels to fit into it (12-30) the increased size of the sensor still leaves more than enough room for the additional pixel count. Here is a nice diagram illustrating various sensor sizes: (more…)