Quite correct... I guess most people think "more megapixels= better camera" when nothing could be further from the truth. For awhile it's all the camera manufacturers and retailers wanted to talk about-- the most megapixels.

Unless you're blowing a picture up to the size necessary for a billboard or covering the side of a bus, 10 mp is plenty for most applications. The more MP the bigger the file size. I always kept my Fuji Finepix "pro-sumer" camera set to 5 mp, which is fine for most pictures, unless you want to blow them up over poster size, then 8-10 is better. Anyway, a good burst mode IS nice (my Fuji will do 33 pics in 1.3 seconds in burst mode-- guaranteed liftoff pics if the ignitor works); the only thing is that's ALL you'll get, because it's an older camera and the buffer is slow writing the pics to the card, so it takes about 15-20 seconds or so after you release the shutter button before it's ready to shoot ANYTHING again... so usually I can't get any "in-flight" pics after the liftoff to about burnout, and then *maybe* some pics on the way down under chute (hopefully).

I compare having these huge megapixel rating sensors under bad glass to using a camera with large-format film (which was the only way to increase the "pixel count" in the old days) with a dinky button-size lens out of a cheap 110 camera... It just doesn't make sense... Good glass and good format size is the reason all those old Ansel Adams pics still look great nearly 100 years later...

Later! OL J R

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