Posted: 12/6/2004 5:33:08 PM EDT
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I want to get a digicam, primarily for posting pics on the net and on my desktop. I want something compact with an optical zoom. I have looked at Sonys, Cannons, HPs, and Samsungs. I am not concerned with printing high quality 8x10"s as I have a Pentax SLR with Zeiss lense for that kind of stuff. What is the range of megapixel's I should be looking at? I want to be able to post clear pics on the net and possibly use for wallpaper on a 12" laptop screen. What is the minimum MP's I should consider? Any specific brands or models? |
your saying each pixel is represented by one bit? 
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I have been looking mainly at cams in the 3-4MP range. 4 seems to cost twice as much as 3 and 5 seems to cost twice as much as 4. I don't want to spend the $$$ for 5, so is there that much difference between 3.2 and 4 for twice as much money? |
I will say this, for the purposes of this site I will give you that one for a file size reference, but in the real world, image compression and video compression are not that simple, not at all. |
NO, Those are the WORST cameras I have ever used. |
Not really.... For a video card or monitor, color depth is the number of shades that can be generated or displayed per pixel. For lower levels of color depth, the figure is usually given in maximum numbers of possible colors (e.g., 16 colors or 256 colors), whereas the higher color depths are usually listed as how many bits a pixel's color takes up (e.g., 16-bit, 24-bit, 32-bit). Thus 32-bit color is a video card setting where every individual pixel's color is described using 32 bits of information. This is one possible color depth setting on many video cards. |
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you can pick up a thousand dollar nikon coolpix from 2 years ago on ebay for cheap http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=30009&item=3857062129&rd=1 Nikon Coolpix 990 3.34 Megapixel Digital Camera 3x Zoom Current bid: US $162.50 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=30009&item=3856996813&rd=1 |
That is a good deal, but I am paranoid as hell about buying used electronics on the net. You never know if that thing has been in someone's pool. |
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Well, I terrabile at spelinng, but Cannon has only one N n it. A Canon Powershot A95 or A85 would be great. A95 - 5 megapixel A85 - 4 megapixel |