I keep hearing how important the number of megapixels is, but the camera I'm looking at only lists the resolution as 100k pixels. Also, for Image Resolution it says 352 x 288 Pixels (HQ) and 176 x 144 Pixels (LQ). Can anybody interpret these numbers for me, and let me know if this is at least a half-decent camera? The price is pretty low, so if it's decent I want to buy it. Thank you.
2007-06-20 11:14:04 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
Yeah that's pretty low alright. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/samfeinstein/505223812/ for a VGA photo, which is what you find in cheaper camera phones these days. This is 640x480 pixels. Imagine a picture that is just about one quarter the size of this one and that's the "High Quality" size of the camera you are looking at. Now imagine a picture that is one quarter the size of THAT one (the one you are already imagining) and that's the "Low Quality" size of the camera you are looking at. The problem is, when you shrink my picture down the quality actually improves because you are "packing the pixels." With the camera you are looking at, if you try to enlarge the pictures at all, they will just about break up into nothing but dots. It would be suitable for nothing other than placing an unimportant snapshot into an e-mail and I mean NOTHING else. I mean, this thing would barely be suitable for a webcam showing a 2-3" picture.
2007-06-20 11:30:40 · answer #1 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
100K pixels is .1 mega-pixels (1/10th) It is a very low resolution for a camera.
2007-06-20 11:22:41 · answer #2 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lots of great answers already for this
2016-07-29 08:00:56 · answer #3 · answered by Jeraldine 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one mp = one million
2007-06-20 11:26:59 · answer #4 · answered by Elvis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Was wondering the same question
2016-08-24 06:19:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋