high optical vs. large megapixel ?

Yeah, same here. I just take usual run of the mill pics, but occasionally I
do need to get close in on the action, such as the Sunderland Airshow last
weekend. But i think i'll make do with my 2800Z for the time being which did
give me pretty good results at 6X Optical anyway ! (was thinking about
upgrading to the Fuji FinePix S5000 or S7000, any comments there ??)

Cheers
Andy


"Don Stauffer" wrote in message
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Only if the only reason you have the camera is to shoot objects at
inaccessible distances.

I personally would rather have the 5MP camera. I still shoot most of my
pictures with a 'normal' focal length, and want as many pixels in my
image as possible, regardless of the focal length I am using.

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

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