andivokes said:
Scenic said:
Well I didn't buy the 4 megapixel camera for nothing.
I actually just bought a 256 meg stick today. 8)
I'll still look for a place to download.
People do naturally think that bigger is better but this is not necessarily true! A 4 megapixel camera is a great investment but you can get equally good pictures at a lower resolution without losing clarity... the higher resolution only really comes into effect when you want to ENLARGE pictures. So unless you are planning on having 300 poster size photos on your wall then you may be as well to use a slightly smaller resolution for the majority of pictures and increase the resolution as you need to for your favourite scenes that you may well want to enlarge when you get home. I am not saying you should use the lowest resolution, far from it, but think about how much enlarging you are actually going to do!
Well seeing as digital camera's still can't match the resolution of film camera's, the larger the mega pixel rating, the better in my opinion.
Film camera's would be equivelent to a 10 mega pixel camera, which I don't think exist yet (or are out of most people's price league).
I have a Fuji 2.1 megapixel camera, which cost a fortune when I bought it a few years ago, and it produces great 6x4 and 7x5 prints, but anything larger and the digital element begins to show. 3 megapixels is entry level today. 1 is only any good for web and printed images (unless you really don't care how your photo's look).
DJb. (Digital Camera Boffin).