What is a good amount of mega pixels and memory on a digital camera?

Question

What is megapixles anyway

Answer 1

4+ mega is good and 1 GB memory card for me. But I heard it's not just about mega pixels, here's a good site to find out more about all different kinds of digital cameras: http://www.steves-digicams.com/

Answer 2

A "pixel" is a "picture element." If you get really, really close to your TV screen, you will see that the image is made up of little dots or tiny rectangles of color. Each on of them is a pixel. In a digital camera, it's the same thing, only amazingly smaller than on your TV.

Pixels - How many are enough?

If you always plan to compose your pictures perfectly, you don't need a whole lot of pixels. If you want to allow for cropping, which means enlarging only a portion of your image, the more pixels the better.

Imagine taking a scenic view and then noticing that the middle 20% of the photo would make an even better picture. Suppose you take a picture of a whole group of people and Aunt Clara really, really looks great in the picture, but everyone else looks lousy. If you have the pixels to work with, you can still make a decent print of Aunt Clara that she would be happy to have. If you buy an 8-to-10 MP camera and don't want to TAKE large photos, you can always set the camera to a lower file size. You can never go the other direction, though.

Unless the cost is a major issue, buy the camera with more pixels. You will never be sorry that you did, but you might one day be sorry that you didn't.

Having said all that, though, pixels are not the only measure of image quality. The sensor size is important as well as the image processing softare inclluded in the camera. You need to read reviews if you want a critical understanding of image quality for particular cameras. Try http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/ for more information on the cameras you are considering.

For memory, the more megapixels you have, the larger the memory card you should buy. For anything of 6MP or more, I'd suggest a 1 GB card. Under that, you can probably get by with a 512 MB card okay.

Answer 3

Is it no longer purely megapixels. fairly some digicam have extra pixels than will be resolved by way of their optics. Very extra or less (some exceptions yet no longer many), any element and shoot with better than 4 megapixels is dropping pixels. you would desire a reliable SLR to really use a 10 megapixel image. For studio 16x16 print you'll favor better than 20 megapixels to examine movie, yet when you're using a warmth press (making t-blouse ?) the clicking blur a studio high quality image, and also you probable purely favor 4 to 5 pixels (from a level & Shoot).

Answer 4

4/5 mega pixels is good enough for most peoples use ,over that and you are just going into specialist ground or getting snared in a marketing ploy.
Built in memory does not matter as you will need a memory card anyway.(512mb card is fine)
4 x optical zoom.
Digital zoom does not matter as it degrades pictures.

Answer 5

At the minimum for a good digital camera, it should be able to shoot at 5.1Megapixels or higher. The memory will vary as you can purchase flash memory cards/sticks at different capacities. The ones usually included are only like 32Mb.

Answer 6

It depends on what kind of picture you want to take. For landscape around 5.0 is good. For normal picture taking 3.2 is more than enough. As far as memory, a 256 mb card is all you will ever really need unless you are taking high quality pictures then I suggest you purchase one with 512 mb or higher. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

10.5 is one of the best around at the moment 5 is good for families 8 is good for birds and 10.5 is good for people like paparazzi but it depends what are you trying to shoot

In terms of memory just make sure it takes a memory card.

Answer 8

Whatever I say it is. I'm a Canon representative. You need at least 10 Megapixels to shoot your snapshots. Give me all your money and then you'll know how good a camera can be!