Megapixel Mondays!

The next Megapixel Mondays is May 2, 2022!!

The "official" Megapixel Mondays event is the first Monday of every month

What?

Megapixel Mondays is an excuse to pull all the old trashy digital cameras out of your drawers and put them to use! The ones with smeared colors, with floppy disk storage, with over-compressed jpeg artifacts, everything that characterizes those early days of digital sensors.

By @caraesten

Why?

Because old digital cameras are often regarded as trash and thrown away, when they have a unique aesthetic all their own. Why should film cameras be regarded as the only lo-fi style worthy of praise when digital cameras can make unique images too?

By @pinkhairdyke

The Rules:

• Use a digital camera with less than 5 megapixels
• Post your photos on Twitter with the hashtag #megapixelmondays
• Make sure to say what camera you used!
• The best photos will be embedded here on the site.
• NSFW art is okay! Just tag it with #nsfw!
• It doesn't have to be taken that day; feel free to post old pics too!

By @compgeke

Who came up with this?

This site is maintained by Cara Esten. Originally, the idea to put it together came from this conversation:

okay I'll make a website later but I'm officially declaring March 7 the first of "Megapixel Mondays", where you post photos taken w cameras that have < 2 megapixel sensors

— Cara! (@caraesten) March 1, 2022