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Originally Posted by HardDrive

Is it really important to have a camera that will allow you to blow up your family photos to the size of a billboard at 300dpi......?

I vote no.

I think the megapixel arms race is pretty much over in the consumer market. I'm sure it will continue in the SLR market for sometime. I REALLY wish they would focus more on improving low light sensitivity.

No, it's not. but there's a big difference between a 1.6 crop sensor that's 21 or 24 mp and a full frame sensor that's 21 or 24mp.

24x36=864mm^2

22.2*14.8=329mm^2

So, my 8mp camera in a 329sqare mm sensor means that in each sq mm of my sensor I have 24 pixels

the fullframe canon that has 21mp in 864 square mm also has 24 pixels per mm.

so, they actually have the same resolution. If the full frame had fewer mp, it would actually have a lower resolution than my <$1000 camera