well, i suppose, for printing uncropped images at 8x10, 6M of RGB pixels is as goot as it gets. but i don't now any digicam capable of that. yet.
but if anyone still shoots B&W film... a 6MP digicam has exactly 2M of pixels of each color. iow, with a red filter on (not that uncommon i suppose, or in photoshop-speak, with red channel selected), it is exactly equivalent to a 2MP digicam. i am sure there will be lots of people claiming that a 2MP digicam is capable of beating 6x7 at printing up to 8x10 and beyond <g> and there also are transparencies on a light table, which look nothing like whatever a 21" monitor is capable of showing (i do have a digital camera and a light table, so i am speaking from my own experience). at any rate, i am yet to see any bargains in either horribly outdated K-mount classics, or in medium format. i suppose the guys who claimed that the market is smarter then the individuals that make it up, knew what they were talking about <g> best, mishka