The irony of it is that the majority of people buying P&S cameras and clamouring for higher MP counts are only ever going to email small jpegs and/or get regular photo sized prints made, so they would be equally happy with a 3mp camera.
Ahhh, the power of marketing. Quoting Digital Image Studio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 06/12/06, Tom C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Canon could conceivably outgun the competition in price and > megapixels if > > there were to be a price war. > > Not could, would. Standing in a digital camera shop (no I am not > joking) which serves to a big crowd of P&S buyers it was interesting > to hear in the short time I was in there that MP count does indeed > appear to be a major selling point. > > -- > 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
