Press Release Summary = Digital photography is the new way to take photos and offers many conveniences that the old 110 camera just can\'t provide.
Press Release Body = When digital cameras first hit the news, I thought, Wow! Never to have to buy film again!? This much has remained true, but it took ten years for digital cameras to come up to the quality performed by film cameras. At first, the pixels were too few to enlarge to 3 by 5 much less an 8 by 10 with any quality. Today, pixels are not a problem and every feature adorning the film camera is now available on a digital camera.
Megapixel is a technical term for \"million pixels\", where a single pixel is the smallest unit of color that a camera\'s sensor is able to capture. The more pixels in the sensor, the sharper the image a camera can reproduce. Note that some camera specifications abbreviate megapixel as \"MP\".
-- Determine Image Use
Now then, how many of those pixels do we need? The first task in answering this question is to determine how we intend to use the images. We are mainly concerned about uses that require a high resolution digital photo. Putting a photo on the computer\'s screen requires a low resolution image, so any camera is sufficient, if this is our only intention. The most common need for high resolution photos is to print or develop pictures. Let us then focus on putting pictures on paper to answer our megapixel question.
Having ruled out extreme sizes, we have the three most common photo sizes to consider. According to online photo labs, the following minimum resolutions are sufficient to produce high quality prints:
* 4 x 6\": 640 x 480 pixels (0.3 megapixels)
* 5 x 7\": 1024 x 768 pixels (0.8 megapixels)
* 8 x 10\": 1536 x 1024 pixels (1.6 megapixels)
From personal experience I would double those megapixels to ensure a nice looking print. Otherwise they just don\'t print as well as you would expect.
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