On Sunday 13 June 2004 11:35 am, Jimmy D. Moore wrote: > Hi Gang, > > Jody is buying me a Digital Camera for Father's Day. I don't know > "doodly squat about them", but I know we have some very knowledgeable > members. To help you help me, here's what I want in a digital:
I have a Fuji FinePix 2650 2.0 Megapixel camera that I got about 2 years ago and rather like. If I got another I would get one that was more weather resistant. But my point in posting is to say that 2 Megapixels are plenty for most people, unless you want to have giant posters, or do extreme zooming either during the shots, or at home in editing. 2 megapixels is 2,000,000 pixels, just a little bigger than 1200x1600 which is what some of the biggest monitors can display. My monitor is a 17" Trinitron, that I run at 768x1024, or 0.79 megapixels, and that's pretty fine grained on my 17". Now on my 19" at work, I run 1024x1280 or 1.3 megapixels. Again, this is a nice fine grained image on that monitor. And if you want to have images for the web, they are no where near this pixel density due to the recommended size for fast loading graphics. This is not to say you can't spend as much as you want for that super fine grained camera, but will you use the power? I don't, many of my friends don't, but my photography buddies do. I'm just a snapshot guy these days, Well, maybe a little more, and 2 megapixels is plenty big enough for me. Rob -- One reason Paul caught more fish than anyone else was that he had his flies in the water more than anyone else. "Brother," he would say, "there are�no flying fish in Montana. Out here, you can't catch fish with your flies in the air." "A River Runs Through It"
