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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Cartman: [QB] "blah blah megapixel" refers to the the number of sensor elements on the camera's CCD/CMOS, or imaging chip. The more of those neat little guys there are, the larger a photo can be before pixelation rears its ugly head, but, of course, every active pixel requires memory, and as you'll often be tempted to use all of them even for average-sized images, you really shouldn't save on either feature too much. And, as Liam says, the term also stands for the absolute maximum resolution that the chip is capable of capturing a picture at [i]sans[/i] mathematical cheats like interpolating or filtering. Anyway, if you are an everyday photographer then you can get by just fine with 2- or 3MP (although that's barely entry level these days), but if you have wild dreams about making, say, panorama's of nature's finest without compromising quality even one iota, a camera in the 4- to 6MP range is probably your best bet. And yes, 3 megapixel is actually 3.1somethingsomething due to the rounding from 2048x1536 (aka QXGA, the 3MP standard). [/QB][/QUOTE]
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