Thanks for all the info (wish i'd never asked !!)

Cheers
Andy


"Hans-Georg Michna" wrote in message
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On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 17:13:38 +0100, "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).

Andy,

Ol' Bab already wrote it, and Joseph reinforced it. Your thought
is correct for max zoom shots including 2 x digital zoom for the
3 x optical zoom camera.

However, the mathematics are wrong. You'd need 10 Megapixels to
arrive at the same 2.5 Megapixel photo.

However, at shorter zoom settings the two cameras would be
different. The one with the more pixels would deliver photos
with more genuine pixels.

Hans-Georg

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