MP accounts for the resolution of the prints. So basically, the bigger it is, the bigger you can make your prints. More pixels will accumulate on a picture horizontally and vertically to make the picture. So the more pixels, the bigger the picture can be.When I'm told that this or that camera has 6.1 MP or 7.1MP, what is the amount of area that the MP resolution rating is for? Is it for the size of the screen of the camera? or is the MP resolution rating only for 1 square inch of picture area?
Well, MP=megapixel=1000 pixels. 1mp=100x100, 500x200, etc. It just depends what aspect ratio your camera takes pictures at.
To The Other One:
What you say doesnt make sense. If 5MP produced 300dpi for a 8 x 10 photo= thats 80inches times 300dpi, which is only 24,000. So this whole thing doesnt make a lot of sense to me.
Reason it's not showing good it supported resolution it takes is because of the camera itself. As good as some of those 300-500$ 5, 6, 7 megapixel camera's are, they are still considered low-end. If you are looking for great quality images, you will have to invest in SLR camera's rather than compact, small, SLR-like camera's. You never want to keep enlarging a picture. You should try to take it bigger, than down-size it. Enlarging it will obvious cause it to lose quality.To DCIScouts:
Thanks for the wikipedia reference. It was very complicated, so I just bought my camera today with a 1 month return policy. So hopefully I'll finish reading that before I change my mind on this camera. Its a Kodak C875 (5x optical zoom and 8.0MP) for $200. The only other slim/compact I could find was 10.0MP with 6x zoom but it was $500. Hopefully I made the best "tech-time dependent" buy I could. It seems good, except the LCD screen is very grainy, but produces good pics once uploaded on to a monitor.
To The Other One:
What you say doesnt make sense. If 5MP produced 300dpi for a 8 x 10 photo= thats 80inches times 300dpi, which is only 24,000. So this whole thing doesnt make a lot of sense to me. I think that 8MP is actually way more than I need, because I couldnt even send someone more than 4 photos due to the size of the res. Now Ive got to figure out how to reduce the res on this pictures.
To computerhakk:
I understand what you say, but this is the same confusing subject I still cant understand with TV projectors. My cameras LCD screen is 2.5", and when you see the graininess, you'll know there is Not 8MP on that screen size. But what screen size will this camera produce 8MP's on?
If I keep enlarging the picture being produced from a TV projector that is HD 1080p x 1920 res, eventually its not going to be HD. So when these resolution "values" are given, I still dont know what the surface area size was when these resolution values were determined.
yes, as long as it is optical zoom and not digital zoom, if you use digital zoom the picture quality will start to degrade fairly rapidly. Optical zoom keeps it looking good.as long as the camera still takes pictures of 5MP with the camera in 10x zoom optical mode?