Digital cameras today are being made with more and more megapixels and the general feeling is that more means better – and more expensive.

Megapixels and resolution is a tricky subject and quite difficult to absorb for the average camera user.

As a rough rule of thumb more megapixels means greater detail or resolution which means that more cropping or enlarging of your photos is possible.

However, if your pictures go no further than a computer screen then the number of megapixels is not so important and 2-3 megapixels should be enough.

I mention all this as times are hard so why spend more money than you have to.

I recently came across a site which dispels the myth that more megapixels means better for compact cameras, and concludes that as these smaller cameras have smaller sensors then 6-megapixels is the optimum number of megapixels for a compact camera. Save your money! Reference: Image Engineering