Although it makes me wonder - given that I am not a photographer at all (my photo-taking experience is pretty much limited to pressing buttons when tourists insist and then getting far away before they look at the picture), does that mean I need zero pixels?
Hmmm. Probably I still need a non-zero number of pixels, or there's no point in having a camera.
Heh! Rough guide, on the off chance you haven't already got this completely taped --when I was looking into this last year, it was like this:
cell phone camera -- maybe 2-3 pixels (image okay, grainy, funny colours) average cameras -- 5-7 pixels (mine is 7-pixel Sony, pictures look like this (http://pics.livejournal.com/joandarck/pic/000p2y4t), but I have a friend who takes gorgeous landscape photos with a 5-pixel Olympus) more expensive cameras -- 9-10 pixels
It's my impression that if you don't plan to blow your photos up to poster size, it really doesn't matter if you have 10+ pixels, but I'm no photographer. Anyway, average pixels per camera seems to be going up all the time, so 5 may be ridiculously low at this point.
Oh, and Canon always ranks the highest no matter who you ask (I know -- Canon -- snerk -- I nearly bought one just for that) -- but I find their cameras kind of blobby and not pleasing in shape, so I didn't get one.
no subject
Hmmm. Probably I still need a non-zero number of pixels, or there's no point in having a camera.
Heh! Rough guide, on the off chance you haven't already got this completely taped --when I was looking into this last year, it was like this:
cell phone camera -- maybe 2-3 pixels (image okay, grainy, funny colours)
average cameras -- 5-7 pixels (mine is 7-pixel Sony, pictures look like this (http://pics.livejournal.com/joandarck/pic/000p2y4t), but I have a friend who takes gorgeous landscape photos with a 5-pixel Olympus)
more expensive cameras -- 9-10 pixels
It's my impression that if you don't plan to blow your photos up to poster size, it really doesn't matter if you have 10+ pixels, but I'm no photographer. Anyway, average pixels per camera seems to be going up all the time, so 5 may be ridiculously low at this point.
Oh, and Canon always ranks the highest no matter who you ask (I know -- Canon -- snerk -- I nearly bought one just for that) -- but I find their cameras kind of blobby and not pleasing in shape, so I didn't get one.
Okay, I am really done now. Good luck!