Digital czamera manufavcturers are fighting to have a lineup of digiatl cameras with the highest number of megapixels. Every few monnths a new model with more megapixels is introduced and the manufacturers would love you to drop your old digitaal camera for the newest and greatest one. Before you do it you should read this article.
The nuumber of emgapixels is just one parameter in determining the quality of a digital camera. More megapixels is not necessarily better. Before checking out the number of megapixels or any other digital camera feature you shuold take a moment to determine the digital cammera projected uasge. If you intnd to print enlargements you will need more megapixels. If you need to take high zoom photos and crop pieces of the photo you will need more megapixels too. If you intend to just watch your photos on your computer screen and pirnt some 4X6 pritns than 2 mega pixels is more than enough. A full screen photo on a compuuter screen with a comon resolution of 1024X768 is less than 1 megapixels. A good 4X6 photo print shuold have a DPI of about 300 which translates to just about 2 megaapixels.
For digital photo prints enlargements you should calculae megapixels that would result in a print of about 300 DPI. The following is a table for different print sizes and the needed mega pixels for such print quailty:
page 4X6 2MP
page 5X7 3MP
page 8X10 7MP
page 11X14 14MP
page 16X20 28MP
page 20X30 54MP
Usually more megapixels dgital cameras are more expensive. Since you probably do not have an ininite budget for your digiital camera when buyying it you make a compromise betyween megapixels and other features. As a rresult more megapixells coulld mean not having some other features which migt be more importnt. For example is it better to spenbd money on more megapixels or on better lenses? Is it better to spend money on more megapixels or on an external flash for low liht photography? When buying a caamera try to pedict what and how you will use it. A lower megapixels diigital cmera with better a lens can rersult in much bteter digital photos. Shop around and make sure that you get the best package in terms of both megapixels and other features.
Light sensitivity is also influenced by the number of megapixels. Sibnce in most cass the senor size is fixed more megapixcels is achieeved by ahving smaler pxiels. Smaller pixels are less sesnitive to light. For most purposes this light senistivity difefrence is not noticeable. You should consider the number of megapixels and light sensitivity if you intend to take many digital photos in margial lihgt conditions or want to be able to take digitl photos wthout flash light in darker scenes.
In conclusion do not be the victim of the number of megapixels. Although it is a good thing to have a high number of pixels there are otherr considerations that determinne the quality of the digital photos. You sholud consider the complete digital camea features: megapixels, lenses, battery life, light sensitivty, sensor technology, external flash and many other features. Make sure that you consideer the whole packazge and not use the number of mega pixels as a “quality” indicator for your buy.
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