On 07/12/06, Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, it seems to be best "price-to-features" ratio. One of my > private clients whom I tutor recently bought her first digital camera - > without consulting me. She ended up with a 4 megapixel Canon. She could > have afforded one with More Megapixels [TM], but she (or the salesman > who sold her the camera) gave more weight to features and the ability > to fit more shots on any given memory card. I really have seen plenty > of people buying cameras this way and I've noticed even Best Buy > salesdroids telling people that they shouldn't necessarily buy because > of pixel count. The cynic in me suspects this sales tactic is probably > a ploy to appear more expert than they really are, but it's certainly > happening. The image quality of many 10-megapixel p-n-s cameras is so > poor that they just can't hide the truth much longer.
Yes I suspect 10MP in P&S will be the break point. And I have heard a sales person argue that a high MP P^S wasn't necessary, the gist of the argument was that even a large print can't hold that many colours :-) -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
