I bought my first digital camera from Wal-mart for $300+ in the late 90’s. It was a Olympus 1.3 MP camera and wrote the pictures off to a small memory card. In regards to the way the digital cameras work, not much has changed.

Every year they come out with a new level of mega pixels to strike interest in the camera products, but honestly I can’t see why anyone needs anything over 10 MP. If you get a proper zoom lens, you don’t need the MP’s.

The MP are there so the manufacturers don’t have to deal with the optical zoom problems. Home bodied consumers, optical zoom is what you want in your camera [mixed with a 5MP or better camera], but anything more than that is really ‘fluff ‘and waste.

I know some are going to read this and say I’m full of crap and my reasoning is completely off-base, but for that I say there’s a another market; a professional market. Professionals or those trying to get in to a market to monetize the photos that are taken and so yes, you can go with more MP’s, but even so the zoom functions are going to be that much more important and the cost will be much higher.

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