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Busting the Megapixel Myth
Anyone looking at the cameras the manufacturers have been offering over the past several years could easily believe that the higher the camera's megapixel count the better. But, as the old jazz standard says: 'It ain't necessarily so!' The only thing more megapixels will give you is the ability to enlarge and crop pictures without individual pixels becoming visible. Other factors are much more important in determining overall picture quality.
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