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Re: 12 Megapixels Enough? For most, yes; but ....

Mr. Watanabe has some very good points, and practically speaking, 12 megapixels is certainly enough to produce excellent photos at the sizes used by most amateur photographers. He's also correct that picture quality is determined by alot of factors, of which the camera's pixel population is just one.

But there are a significant number of advanced amateur photgraphers out there (as well as advanced "wannabes") who will want to make much bigger enlargements of their photos, and for whom the higher pixel populations will always be important in their decisions to purchase particular cameras. A bigger concern, however, is that the purchasing public has a tendency to focus (pardon the pun) on an easily qualtifiable number to distinguish between products of different quality. Just as computer customers have for many years focused on processor speed and hard disk size, photographers will continue to consider the number of megapixels and optical zoom range in digital cameras as a primary factor in their decisions on which to buy.

No doubt there are practical problems in building cameras with ever more pixels, but where problems exist, opportunities abound for creating solutions that work. Where will the Olympus E-series be when "mainstream" cameras have 24 megapixels? Will they even be marketable? Will Olympus be left behind?

Certainly Olympus would do well to help educate the picture-taking public on the many factors that make a camera able to take really good pictures, but Mr. Watanabe would do well to watch where the megapixel race is headed, and be ready and able to market products that are competitive at all levels. I, for one, truly miss the innovation that Olympus brought with their now venerable OM-series film SLRs. So, how about a full-frame 35mm DSLR, Olympus? Something of advanced amateur to professional quality, that would take Olympus OM-series lenses?

Posted by: dcwest   Posted on: 03/09/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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