TJ Pix wrote: I'm trying to decided which camera I want to buy and on fence with two different cameras that are about the same price, but one has 12MP and the other literally has double MP at 24MP.
For a beginner, should this make a huge difference. What other things in a camera should I be looking at when deciding?
Screamin Scott wrote: There is more than meets the eye... Go to a site like snapsort.com & enter both models into the compare fields. MP's are but one consideration when shopping for a camera
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Don Fischer wrote: My first DLSR was a Nikon D70 with 6mp's. It did everything I asked it to do. Took a photo of a buck deer years aago with it aand had it blown up to 16x20, turned out great. The trik is fill the frame with what you want, 6mp's just doesn't crop that well. Then I went to a 10 mayby 12 mp camera, D5000. The only advantage I could see was the amount of cropping the higher mp's let me do. Now I still have the D5000 but useed a D7000 for a lot of what I do. Again it went up on mp's. 16 I think, and the ability to crop got even more noticeable. I got it for the speed as I do fast running dog's. What I found was the speed wasn't all I expected it to be and to help get better photo's, I cut back on the frame's per sec to 3! The focus point's reall throw me off with this camera. It has 39 and I really don't get anymore good focused photo's than I did with the 5000! Those little squares come up all over and keep changing, I have no idea how to work with it well but wish I had just one focus point right in the middle of the view finder. For me, all those extra focus point's are a distraction. But for mp's, the D5000 had enough to do what I wanted but the camera was also light and small, uncomfortable! I think the pixel chase is more sales pitch than anything else.
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