Which Digital Camera should I Buy in terms of Pic quality (Mega Pixels) & Price (Shouldn much) ?
First of all: A Megapixel chip can only make pictures as good as the lens in front of it. If you have the choice between a lower Megapixel camera but a large lens, then go for the larger lens (with larger in diameter I mean). This will help you with low light conditions, as a bigger lens lets in more light. More light means, the chip will have more light to work with and will have less grainy noise in the picture. So, basically the Powershot models from Canon are very good mid-range digital cameras, with great colors and very little distortions from the lens borders. The sharpness is also extraordinary. And thanks to the good lenses, the optical resolution of the lens made the photos of my old 3,3 MegaPixel camera (Powershot G1) often better than some 5 Megapixel cameras at that time. And for the love of god: never – *never EVER* – buy a camera because of DIGITAL zoom. What Digital Zoom does, is taking a small portion of the Chip, and blowing it up to full picture size, and then making
