On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:10:50 GMT, Mr. T wrote:

Another newbie question:
What would you consider more important in a point and shoot camera? High mp,
high iso or a high quality lens?

It seems that everyone advertises their high mp cameras but say little about
the lens...

I'd say that high mp does not indicate that a camera will be any
good. There are some really terrible ones that have high resolution
sensors. Some aren't even really high resolution but fake it by
using a low resolution sensor and "interpolating" to produce a bogus
high resolution image.

Cameras that have good, clean, high ISO ability or a very good
lens can generally be trusted to be good cameras, but it's up to
*you* to decide which is more important. You can't determine which
is "better" unless you know which type of pictures are more
important for you. There are a few advanced P&S cameras that have a
very good combination of relatively high ISO sensor and a high
quality lens. To get the very best combination you'd have to get a
DSLR with possibly one really good non-kit lens, but that might cost
several hundred percent more than one of the advanced P&S cameras.