My Spending Spree!

[Lubricant]

I have the book in front of me now. It says max pixels are:

3888x2592 *File Size up to 3.8MB* (My Camera is only a 10MP, the top cameras go up to 12MP)

I think it works out at 42'', well says Photoshop but in the book it says A3 - both big.

Plus I can change the overall picture size, by going into the settings and selecting the type of recording image. Atm it is on Large Normal, but I can go up to Large Fine, and right down to Small Normal Another reason for getting a better computer is to store and edit all these photos. With one photo getting up to 3.8MB... I am going to use the GB very quickly.

Oh no. You don't have the top model?! =OO

[DarrenToogood]

The top model would cost me thousands, and I am not a professional therefore I would not be spending that much money

I think the best Canon D-SLR is the 1D.

[Metric1]

Clearly not. A 6MP digital camera is no where near the quality of a 10MP D-SLR...

Megapixels mean ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING. It's the total package that makes the camera (lens, image sensor, features, stability program, etc..).
You can have all the megapixes in the world, if you have no stability function your pictures turn out crap. I have a 8? megapixel Canon PowerShot A720? IS, and it works great, I don't see the need for anything more.

[DarrenToogood]

You may not need a better camera, because you are not a photographer, however if you want good photos, you need a D-SLR.

A Canon is a very respectable make, and features alot of things some cameras do not. For example the EOS Internal Cleaning System.

[Zaub]

Megapixels mean ABSOLUTLEY NOTHING. It's the total package that makes the camera (lens, image sensor, features, stability program, etc..).
You can have all the megapixes in the world, if you have no stability function your pictures turn out crap. I have a 8? megapixel Canon PowerShot A720? IS, and it works great, I don't see the need for anything more.

Yeah right... So you'd buy a 1 megapixel camera would you?

[Lycan]

You may not need a better camera, because you are not a photographer, however if you want good photos, you need a D-SLR.

A Canon is a very respectable make, and features alot of things some cameras do not. For example the EOS Internal Cleaning System.

Of course by respectable you mean made in third world countries by a workforce paid almost nothing

[Recursion]

You only need higher megapixels if you are going to print them on HUGE sheets of paper.

[N!ck]

You may not need a better camera, because you are not a photographer, however if you want good photos, you need a D-SLR.

A Canon is a very respectable make, and features alot of things some cameras do not. For example the EOS Internal Cleaning System.

I'm pretty sure you can take good photos without a D-SLR .

Yeah right... So you'd buy a 1 megapixel camera would you?

If everything else in the camera was really good then photos taken on a 1MP camera would look good on a device like a digital photo frame and even some lower res computer monitors. Megapixels are only a very small part in making a good image. They just give more detail and allow the image to be "blown up" more. A 720p high def image is not even one megapixel.

[DarrenToogood]

You guys seem to be making yourself to know things, which you really don't know.

I am sure you could take a good image with an non Digital SLR, however it will not be the same quality as a D-SLR.

There is two types of photographers...

a) 'Holiday Snappers' - Take general pictures of where they go, think they are good but they arn't

b) Photographers - People who make money, and sell their photos on sites - Use D-SLR

[N!ck]

You guys seem to be making yourself to know things, which you really don't know.

I am sure you could take a good image with an non Digital SLR, however it will not be the same quality as a D-SLR.

There is two types of photographers...

a) 'Holiday Snappers' - Take general pictures of where they go, think they are good but they arn't

b) Photographers - People who make money, and sell their photos on sites - Use D-SLR

I probably know more than you think. Obviously someone who knows what they're doing can take better pictures with a D-SLR than a normal digital camera. A human intervention and human decisions are better than what a computer decides the image should look like as the images are, after all, there for pleasing human eyes. Also D-SLR users will have access to better lenses.