What is better?More megapixels or more zoom?

Answer 1

Neither. The more megapixel is good up to a certain point - especially in a point and shoot camera - where too much megapixel would means noise/grainy picture even when you're shooting in not so dim light condition.

The more the zoom are fine, but also up to a certain point where the camera becomes more bulky and optical quality becomes reduced. This is why professional SLR lenses sometimes doesn't have zoom at all - non zoom lenses are the best in optics quality.

Everything in a camera design (or photography for that matter) is a balance. There's no such thing as "the more the better."

Answer 2

To quite an extent, there is a trade off between megapixels and zoom, especially optical zoom. If you have a high megapixel camera, you can crop in to enlarge the photo target, and it appears just the same as using lower megapixel and higher zoom. But eventually you reach a point of deminishing returns. You are probably better off with a camera with both high Mp and high optical zoom. I caution against one with lower optical zoom and high digital zoom, especially if it is low Mp, as once you get into the digital zoom range, you start loosing pixels (ie photo quality), you will not be able to crop as much, and your photos become very pixelated (you can see individual pixels).

Answer 3

More pixels, higher quality. Or the more you can enlarge it and maintain quality............ There are two kinds of zoom: optical zoom maintains the same pixel count, regardless of where it's zoomed; but digital zoom loses pixel count as it's zoomed. ie, if you have a 5mp camera w/ digital zoom, you'll zoom out to tele and get to 4mp, then 3mp. If something must be sacrificed, I'd get a higher pixel count, optical zoom and give up the digital zoom.

Answer 4

A bigger zoom range will give you more flexbility than increased resolution.

However, to be really useful the zoom should include wide angle (28mm film equivalent) which most compact cameras do not.

Answer 5

Zoom.