Why do I have a 10M setting on my 5MP camera?

Question

I have a Hitachi HDC-571E camera, which the box said shoots to 5MP resolution. On the menus, I can choose the size from VGA up to 10M. What is 10M??

Answer 1

It might do "interpolation" by "stretching" the image it sees to give a bigger megapixel file.

Stick with 5MP setting as that is what the sensor is.

Answer 2

"10 mega pixels"

Hope it helps!