What digital cam makes practically better pictures, 4 or 5 or 6 megapix?
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The more the better, in theory. However in real life you can't tell the difference UNLESS you are planning to crop out a small part of the photo and enlarge that to viewing size. If so then you want a lot of pixels to start with because most of them will be cut away after the cropping.
If you are a careful photographer most of the photos will have interesting image you want to keep filling the whole picture. If you are sloppy about where you point and end up with just a small section of good stuff then cropping will be important. And of course in one little part of a big image might be a really great shot of someone in a big group that is worth using as the end picture.
So cropping occurs but in general you can't tell the difference among the full view images taken with cameras at those resolutions.
Technically it would be easy to say more pixels = better pictures but that simply isn't true. My 5mp Canon compact takes MILES better pics than my gf's 8 mp camera. And my 6mp DSLR blows them both WAY out of the water. For sensors it is a case of quality over quantity
6 is the best, but you probably won't notice too much unless you blow the pictures up huge.
but a 4 M pixel Cannon would be better than a 6 M pixel vivitar one.
i reckon ask in the shop (although obviously they'll go for a pricier one if they can.)
The higher the megapixel the better the quality. buy as high as you can afford.
It's all Subjective!
If you are enlarging images past 20x16 Inches-then you need 6MP.
For General Photography you can use anything between 4-6MP.
Generally speaking,the more Megapixels-the more space on your Mac or P.C. the image will take up.And the more memory the image will take up when art-working or processing the image.
Don't rely on the number of pixels alone to judge the quality of a digital camera. Just because it boasts a whopping number, doesn't mean it will give good results.
You need to decide how much you want to spend first and then look for a camera which has good specifications including a decent lens. Without good optics the size of the optical sensor is irrelevant.
Go for a 5mp as this at present will give best quality prints if you're printing your own. Going higher doesn't improve the quality of the prints because the printers currently can't print any more dots per inch (dpi). If you are having them printed professionally at a printers (not photo printers then its perhaps worth going higher but thats just for pros ie magazine publishers etc). Hope that helps.
It depends on more than just megapixels.You need a good quality sensor in the camera,plus a good lens,otherwise you won't get any benefit from extra megapixels.
The higher the Pix the better
That's like saying, what's a better car- one with 4 cyl, 6cyl or 8cyl. The more pixels is usually better- but there's a lot more to digital cameras than then number of pixels.
4Mp will print a pretty dang nice quality 8x10" photo.
I agree with most of what has been said, it is worth mentioning that the lens quality is the main factor, if this is rubbish 20 million pixels wont do you any good.
Once you have a good lens, then the more pixels, generally the better the quality of the picture, given that all other factors are equal.
It should be remembered that a good length Optical zoom, can make up for a lack of pixel power for certain types of shot.
Happy snapping.
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