Megapixels question?

Question

Is it worth it to spend an extra 50 bucks to get a 8 MP camera instead of a 6 MP camera? Does it make that much of a difference? Also, I'm not a photographer or anything. I just use my camera at social events and such. I am thinking about buying the 6 MP one, but my old camera was 7 MP and I don't want to be disappointed. Will it be that much of a difference? Will I notice it?

Answer 1

It doesn't matter. If you do just regular prints like 4x6, you'll be fine. 8 Megapixels is if your planning to get big prints than the average sizes, here is an example below.

4 x 6" 2 megapixels 1600 x 1200

5 x 7" 3 megapixels 2048 x 1536

8 x10" 5 megapixels 2560 x 1920

11x14" 6 megapixels 2816 x 2112

16x20" 8 megapixels 3264 x 2468

Answer 2

You will only notice the difference once you blow up the pictures fairly large.

Answer 3

oki, for normal computer screen size prints, hmmm lets say A4 you need about 3.5mpix to print good quality. No you wont notice a difference.

Most of people like you will think digital zoom is zoom as well as optical, so yea they/you will use it, well digital zoome is cropping optical zoom, basically cutting pixels of, there you might welcome more pixels.

Answer 4

You won't notice a thing. Some 6mp camera's are bettor than some 10 mp camera's.