Andy wrote:
Pardon my ignorance, but am i right in thinking that a camera with a
3 X Optical Zoom having 5MPixels, is about the same as a camera
having a 6 X Optical Zoom with 2.5MPixels (i know you don't often get
2.5MP, but just theoretically).

This weekend i was at the Sunderland Airshow, i have a Fuji Finepix
2800Zoom (2.0MP, 6X Optical), i got reasonable pictures, and looking
at the picture on the PC monitor (and no zooming in/out of picture)
the plane looks to be about 7cm on screen. Now, what i am trying to
find out is, forgetting picture QUALITY, would i have got similar
results with a camera with only a 3X optical zoom, but having 4 or
5MP ? (i.e. without any zooming of the picture on screen, would the
plane still look to be 7cm ?.

Hope someone knows what i'm going on about !

Cheers
Andy

As, Ol' Bab pointed out, no. In addition with the 5MP camera you also
have the option of using it at 3X or less and getting the full 5MP and the
option of cropping it at your leisure if you like or using the full 5MP


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