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Otish - My New Camera
On Oct 29, 1:04*pm, Jake Nospam@invalid wrote:
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 10:38:08 +0100, stuart noble wrote: I'm still on 3.2 megapixels for the always with camera. Never really felt the need, or seen it as a civic duty, to upgrade :-) I remember reading not that many years ago that 5 megapixels was about the same definition as "professional" "film" cameras (remember those?) and there was no need to go any higher. OTOH, I have a magazine somewhere from the latter half of the 80s which maintained that 64K of memory and 120 megabytes of hard disk capacity would be enough to see me through my lifetime of computing needs! I've taken (what I think are) better shots with the 3.5 megapixel camera in my mobile phone than with a 10 megapixel camera that the G12 has now replaced. I think there's a lot more to life than megapixels. Cheers, Jake ================================================== =========== URGling from the less wet end of Swansea Bay where it's about the same moisture-wise as the more wet end. The cat's web site is atwww.pillie.me.uk. The number of pixels is to a large extent a good sales gimmick, and in general you would find that a 5 meg DSLR which is optically superior to an 8 meg PAS, will produce much better pictures! Seems strange that no one much seems to have grasped this, and also seem unaware of the size that pics would be if printed at full resolution. But then again if you bought from one of the chains, you will have certainly have had to listen to bullshit about a PAS with more pixels, being superior to a DSLR with less.............. |
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