I am researching digital cameras for making website imagery. Is a 2 megapixel camera enough to get a decent image for web display? This will not be gallery photography, just a decent shot which will go through PhotoShop edits.
georgeek
8:39 pm on Apr 11, 2003 (gmt 0)
Yes 2 megapixels is enough for web work. I used 2 megapixels for some time and upgraded last year to 3 megapixels (Olympus C300/D550) simply to have more functionality on the camara.
Filipe
8:56 pm on Apr 11, 2003 (gmt 0)
2 megapixels is more than enough. That's 2 million pixels, more than a 1280 x 1024 resolution on images (I don't know the exact resolution standards for a 2MP camera). Usually you wont have an image wider than 7 or 800 pixels on a website, so after reducing the size of the image, you end up with similar quality, regardless of the megapixels (though color blending will be slightly better with more megapixels)
wildwestica
1:29 am on Apr 12, 2003 (gmt 0)
Very nice. Thank you. It's going to be a Canon Sure Shot A40 model. At $250 US it's a bargain.
carfac
5:38 am on Apr 12, 2003 (gmt 0)
A little bandwidth-saver tip. Once you resize it to the correct size.... you can also reduce the DPI- 72 DPI is ALL you need for screen resolutions. Anything over that is wasted, and just takes up bandwidth!
