[Gllug] Digital Cameras

Richard Cohen richard at vmlinuz.org
Wed Jun 5 13:42:40 UTC 2002


On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, SteveC wrote:

> * French, Alastair (Alastair.French at racalinst.co.uk) wrote:
> > It is a 2M pixel device with 3x optical zoom. I have turned off the screen
>
> Why are cameras listed in terms of absolute number of pixels and not their
> resolution?

Because marketing people drool at the thought of being able to use a word as
cool as MegaPixel?

:-)

> have fun,
>
> SteveC steve at fractalus.com fractalus.com/steve

Cheers
Richard


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