From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:29:26 +0100, peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid (Pd)
wrote:

>Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Still, seeing a CEO of a large company actually explaining why megapixels
>> alone are not that important in a camera and getting enough photons into
>> the sensor is the real challenge nearly made me clap my hands in front of
>> my computer. I've been waiting for *years* for a company making
>> smartphones having the balls to give up on just raising the megapixels bar
>> and start to talk about capturing light, which still is the thing
>> photography is all about.
>
>That's marketing for you. My old 3.2 megapixel Ixus takes better
>pictures than my wife's newer 7 megapixel Panasonic.

Does the Pana make better pics when you turn it down to lower res? My
current 7Mp Ixus is visibly less noisy at 5Mp.

Cheers - Jaimie
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