[jaz.357]

What is it with digital photos? I was going to buy an H/P 3.2 megapixal last year but the guy at Circiut City said "wait till next year"!

NOW Sony has an 8 mexapixal on the market!

What are we gonna do?

Why do we need that?

[July 4th]

NOW Sony has an 8 mexapixal on the market!

Yeah, and it's pretty much a piece of crap. The CCD noise and chromatic aberrations are pretty bad. The new Canon Digital Rebel (based on a CMOS sensor, not the CCD) is only 6 megapixel, and takes far better pictures. And a clean 6 megapixel image can be "blown up" to at least an 8.5 x 11" print and have it look the same as a regular film picture. The technology gets better all of the time.

[af_vet_rr]

NOW Sony has an 8 mexapixal on the market!

Yes, and it's bad. Very bad. Basically the sensor is a lot smaller than a comparable 5MP or 6MP sensor and the noise (film grain if you were looking at a print) in certain situations at ISO64-200 is worse than a comparable 6MP at ISO 400-1600 under the same conditions.

They are catching hell over noise and general image quality on a lot of photo sites. They probably rushed it out the door to make the holiday sales is what I'm guessing, because the $1000 crowd is not the crowd to knowingly upset - they are the ones that recommened the $200-400 Sony cameras to their relatives.

8MP is almost wasted on many people as well (or they could better spend their money elsewhere). A good 5MP or 6MP will do an 8x10 or 11x13 and you can't tell the difference 99% of the time between it and a film camera.

[Dionysius]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but a 128 MB Card will only hold 28 images at 8 megapixels. If you travel you'd have to take a notebook along to download the images or invest in multiple cards. Seems to me, you could get a first class standard SLR for a much smaller investment.