- The camera, seems like a winner, but I've yet to see a shot as good as something off my 5 megapixel Canon.
Unfortunately, the term "megapixel" has been made incorrectly synonymous with how colorful/vibrant, clear, sharp a picture is in the end result.
In reality, megapixel simply refers to the amount of individual pixels, or resolution, a picture contains. It has no bearing on the vibrancy or trueness of colors, clarity of detail, contrast, etc. that people look for in the "quality" of a picture. People seem to think that if a camera has more megapixels, the quality of the picture should always be better than the picture taken by a camera with less megapixels.
Really, the
quality of the photograph comes down more to the glass the picture is being taken through, and the image processing. You can get a much higher quality image out of a 2 megapixel camera shot with great glass (another meaning for the lens) and with great image processing done under the hood in a dedicated camera, than you can get with an 8 megapixel camera stuffed into a cellphone.
Really, anything over about 5 megapixels is just a waste for the average joe picture-taker. The only time you would really benefit from having a camera with the ability to take pictures containing more megapixels is if you were wanting to blow the image up to huge proportions, or zoom in on the image expecting to keep more detail and clarity.
I realize that's a much more in-depth response than anyone might have expected on a comment such as the one I quoted, but I'm just trying to keep people from thinking something is wrong with their phone or camera, just because it doesnt take as good of a picture as something else.
How's
that for a first post