Cheap 10-megapixel camera?

Q. I was reading a Magazine at work called 'Quick&Simple' and it featured a 10-megapixel camera that was at a lower price than most on the market. If I remember correctly, it had a 'CX' in the name. I cannot find this camera or the magazine it was featured in. Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Here's a listing of cameras 10 megapixels or better:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/DIGCAM12.HTM

I didn't see anything there with a CX in the name.

However, there are a number of very good cameras on that list; I would find something in your price range and go from there. Note that you should check for the most current prices, as camera prices change just about daily.

Among some good cameras at low prices the

Casio EXILIM Zoom EX-Z1080 and the Fujifilm FinePix F50fd

are both worthy of being looked at.

5 megapixel camera, good or bad?

Q. I am going to ask for a polaroid PoGo instant digital camera for my birthday and i have seen that it is 5 megapixels, when i mentioned this to a friend who is into photography she said that 5 megapixels is really bad quality, but then i go online and read that it is ok.

i just want a few more opinions about whether 5 megapixels is good or bad.

thankyou for any help :)

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A 5 megapixel camera can be bad, average or good. Megapixels are NOT a measure of image quality, so anyone that tells you that 5 MP is 'bad quality' doesn't understand digital photography and digital image sensors. a given number of megapixels is only a potential for a certain amount of detail, that's it. MP has nothing to do with color, contrast, noise (or lack of it) image noise etc.

Early dSLR cameras were only 3 MP and they were used by pros for all kinds of major publications. I know nothing of the PoGo, so you'll need to search the web for not only reviews, but full size digital photos to look at. The quality of the image sensor and the lens will determine image quality, not the pixel count.

If anything, more pixels in a small image sensor is bad, not good. I've got a dSLR with 12MP, I wonder if your friend thinks that a 12MP 99 dollar compact is just as good. It isn't.

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my vga was better than my 1.3 megapixel camera???

Anunnaki

my vga camera on sharp gx15 was very good in quality compared to my new ericsson Z550i 1.3 megapixel camera. the new phone's pictures look very dirty full of dots everywhere even on the highest best quality. Can anybody tell me why this is? And also if picture quality does not depend on megapixels then how does a person determine which camera will be better?

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Megapixel count determines the size of the photo and assures more colors. Hopefully more colors will lead to more realistic photos.

But a camera is also very dependent on the lens to produce breat photos. In fact, the lens is the more important part of the camera. In your case, it may not matter much because camera phones use cheap and tiny lenses.

For a digital camera, the third important element is the processing/cleaning engine. This is a firmware that cleans up the digital image to remove "noise" (i.e. grain, hot pixels or dots). The drawback in using a strong cleaning engine is that it reduces the details of the photo. I imagine that if you set your camera to the "highest" photo quality, the cleaning engine is almost switched off.

The problem with setting the camera to take the highest quality image is that it can be prone to a lot of noise. Try setting your phone to take medium or low quality and see if its comparable to the relatively low quality noiseless photo by your Sharp phone.

The number of megapixels assures a bigger photo, but the size and quality of the lens is more important, and nowadays, its a race for a better cleaning engine.

If you want good quality photos, you need a more expensive phone (or better yet, a real camera).

Does more megapixels mean a better camera?

John Czarc

Does more megapixels mean a better camera?

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Megapixels taken by themselves is no indication of the quality of a camera. The camera's optics are as important, or perhaps more important than the number of megapixels your sensor has.

And if over-done, too many megapixels can cause low-light performance to suffer.

And other issues, such as color balance, exposure accuracy, and a dozen other parameters can really make a difference in the quality of a camera.

So you cannot judge the quality of a camera by just looking at the number of megapixels it has.

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Is a 5 megapixel camera good quality for a cell phone?

megapixel for camera image

Victoria

I want this phone and I really like it but I love taking pictures so I was just wondering if a 5 megapixel camera was good because I dont want a crappy camera that takes blurry pictures.

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Ehh,depends. Tho they have the same 5mp. Camera quality can diff. If your switching to a blackberry. Think twice lol,however other manufacturers make good 5mp cameras. Like htc,or samsung.

what is the highest megapixel camera you can get ?

what is the highest megapixel camera i can get in the uk ?, and how much does it cost, where can i get it ?

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You can custom make one as high as you need. The LSST is going to be a huge telescope with a rack of CCDs totalling 3.2 gigapixels.

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