With a digital camera, is a 5 megapixel camera good? What actually is a megapixel?

Answer 1

mega- (symbol M) is an SI prefix in the SI system of units denoting a factor of 106, i.e. one million; 1 000 000. Therefore five megapixels is five million pixels. A pixel is a discrete unit of the photograph (tiny little dots if you will) that make up the photo. Five megapixels I once read is about all you will ever need for a casual photographer. The photographs will be sharp and as large as you probably will ever need. You should also look at how fast the camera acquires the image. The amount of optical zoom and digital zoom. And finally its relative quality of photo. The traditional camera company's Canon, Pentex, Olympia, Minolta, I think take better photos. (Canon particularly) While the HP, Kodak and some of the other computer company models tend to be easy to use with good software that integrates with your computer/printer

Answer 2

Five megapixel is great for a beginner. Unless you print out the picture you won't notice the difference.

Megapixel - one measurement of quality (detail) of a digital picture. More is better. A cheap computer monitor (like less than 15") has about one megapixel. A high end computer monitor (like around 20") has about two or three megapixels. The huge 30" monitor Apple sells is four megapixel. So if you look at a five megapixel image on a monitor, it's overkill. On the other hand, 35mm film is equivelent to at least 14 megapixel, so if you print it out it might not be to your liking.

Answer 3

yes it is good
A megapixel (that is, a million pixels) is a unit of image sensing capacity in a digital camera.

Answer 4

i have sony cypershot 5 megapxels and i love it.