I saw this too. But lets get real. Who needs this megapixel stuff
unless you want medium format. Over the course of the summer I used
the E20, D100 and Finepix S2 (this one at a Nova Scotia dealer on
holidays). You know what, I would be happy with the resolution on
all of them. i printed up to 8x10 with all of them with SUPERB
results on an Epson 785EPX (same print engine as the 1280). I may
print 1 11x14 in my life time, so I doubt 10 megapixels or 20
megapixels (see link below) with be of anyuse to the general person:
<http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02090601sinar22mp.asp>http://www.dpreview.com/news/0209/02090601sinar22mp.asp
This megapixel crapola is now becoming a marketing thing.
-Bill
I have seen closely reasoned arguments even before 3 megapixels was
pushing the envelope that quality parity(some things a little
better/some things a little worse) with 35mm film would be reached at
8-10 megapixels. Since film is considered to exceed the resolution of
lenses, it would appear that this is it. The next big jumps may be
marketing, but this is real progress.
--
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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