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To: pyslent who wrote (169374)	5/12/2014 2:43:51 AM
From: Ryan Bartholomew	Respond to of 213181

I owned one of the early 1MP digital cameras 15 years ago and you couldn't even get a 3x5 to look decent. If you've ever printed a 4MP image at 8x10 using a quality printer, you can certainly notice a difference, but that's not the real problem. Zooming is the problem. If you take video or stills at 4MP-8MP and you have to employ digital zooming to any notable degree, you lose a lot. Try shooting a sporting event from a sideline and try to capture the details of the action, for example. There's no doubt that there's such a thing as overkill, but there's a reason that many of the high-end phones have moved to 16MP+... some people utilize the power. And as others have noted, it's not just the MP that matters, it's the rendering, advanced editing features, etc. that matter just as much. I think Apple was wise to take on Partinen, and they likely did so because they know it's important to keep pace with the advancements in the camera dept.