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Anybody have this digital camera ??
danny_galaga:
sigh, what i mean is that if you take a 1.2 meg pic, any size larger than say an old fashioned paper photo will look more grainy than say a 3.2 meg pic. better to have that extra quality to play with so that down the track you aren't wishing you bought a higher res camera...
Crazy Cooter:
I've got an old 1.3 Mp cheapo ($100 a couple years ago). It prints little photos just fine. We're looking at getting a better cam because the girlie wants to print large format pics. We're looking at ~5 MP for the 8x10 prints. I *think* this will work.
I wouldn't buy anything without optical zoom. Digital zoom is worthless. You can do that in photoshop. Nice point about glass lens vs. plastic. I never thought of that. Good link for that Steves page too. I'm going to look through it.
DrewKaree:
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You do NOT need 3 megapixels to get 'good photos'. You need 3 megapixels to get large photos. A quality 1.3 megapixel camera is perfectly capable of getting good 3x5 or even (though this depends on the camera) 4x6 shots. Megapixels are a lot more related to the SIZE of a photo than the QUALITY because they are a measurement of RESOLUTION.
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Good point. You CAN get pictures that are just fine for those sizes, but folks normally don't look at those size pictures and say "dang, this is pretty good". I also thought quality 1.3 megapixel was an oxymoron ;)
I believe, like danny, in having more of that resolution available at smaller sizes, so in case I wanna go bigger, I won't be hit with as stiff a penalty as having a lower-pixeled camera and going to a larger photo. Because of that resolution, the pictures generally look better when comparing equal sizes of photos from dissimilar cameras.
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Other notes: This says nothing about lens material. Don't ever spend real $$ on a camera with plastic lenses (as in every consumer Kodak digital model). That seriously degrades quality. It also says nothing about optical zoom, only 4x digital zoom. Digital zoom is usually used where optical zoom ends, so since this sucker is only 4x digital, you have to assume is has practically no optical zoom. That's bad for both still and video.
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Another good point! Once that plastic lens gets the inevitable scratch, it'll be the death of your enjoyment with that camera.
I've heard it said that digital zoom is the "floor mats included" feature on cameras. The digital zoom essentially makes a best-guess enlargement of the of the actual image, instead of using those added pixels to create a nice photo for you.
Good tips Chad.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: DrewKaree on February 02, 2005, 07:52:51 pm ---Good point.
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SOAPboy:
my dad has one.. its junk.. nuff said..