My camera is 10 mega pixels. The higher amount of pixels the better value and quality the picture is. I assume that only 5 mega pixels is pretty low and the pictures that you take won't be as good quality as, say, 10 mega pixels.
In the article "Digital Photography: How many Megapixels Do You Need?" (at http://www.naturesimage.com.au/page/77145/default.asp) the professional photographer Andrew Goodall says good pictures up to 8"x12" can be taken with a 5MP camera:-
You can produce good, high quality prints up to 8x12 inch (20x30cm), and probably larger, with a five megapixel camera. This is not a compromise; I doubt you would see any improvement in print quality taking the same picture on a ten megapixel camera. Certainly you would see a difference if you enlarged the photo to poster size, but (as we have discussed), very few people reading this article are likely to do that.
Please do not see these comments as negative. I would never suggest that anyone who has bought a more powerful camera has wasted their money. Your upmarket camera probably came with an extra feature or two that adds to the fun you can have with photography. And of course, it is nice to know you could make giant prints from your photos…even though we both know you possibly never will.
The important thing is not how many megapixels the camera has, but how well-focussed and sharp the original photo was in the first place. A camera with more megapixels doesn't make you a better photographer: a poor 6"x4" will be an atrocious A4 size photo (Hint: focus on the eyelashes.)
5 megapixel is the same thing as 5 million pixels.
Let's say your camera takes an image that is 1600 times 1200 pixels big. This image holds 1,920,000 pixels, meaning that the camera can take pictures up to 1.9 megapixels.
the two units are in no way related so no equivalence can me made
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no this is not a good camera, 0.3 megapixels is really low && you want the highest amount you can get. 8.0 megapixels is about average. you want to get your megapixels from there && up
The rear camera is 13 megapixels. The front camera is 2 megapixels.
The standard flip camera has definition of 3.2 megapixels. A high end flip camera can have up to 8 megapixels.
3 Megapixels.
you may be surprised that the DSi Camera lens has a mere 0.3 megapixels!!
2.1 megapixels
The front camera for the iPhone 5 is 1.2 megapixels. The camera on the rear is 8 megapixels.
The price range of a digital camera can vary depending on the megapixels it has. It can be anywhere from å£50-1000. The smaller more lightweight cameras tend to cost more, and the higher the megapixels, the higher the price.
The front camera for the iPhone 5 is 1.2 megapixels. The camera on the rear is 8 megapixels.
Now with iPhones having 5 megapixel cameras built inside, the average megapixels in a camera phone have gone up. But not everyone has an iPhone, so the average amount of megapixels is around 3 or 4.
2.0 megapixels exactly
For high quality pictures look for a camera with at least 8 megapixels.