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The Beginner Buyer's Guide To Digital Cameras, Or The Ins And Outs Of Megapixels. by: Warren Lynch The most important part of buying a digital camera is making sure that the one you select meets all of your needs. Digital Camera 101 Better digital cameras uses a chip called a 'Charged Coupled Device' (CCD) instead of film. Light enters the camera, through the open shutter, and strikes the CCD where it is converted to digital data before being stored in the camera's memory. While that is the simple description, things can get pretty complicated from there. Megapixels & Resolution Resolution is a measure of how many pixels are used to make a digital copy of an image. Pixels are tiny dots of light that make up a digital image. The quality of a digital camera's image is usually measured in 'Megapixels' where each megapixel represents one million pixels. Here's how to determine how many megapixels you'll need depending upon the type of photos you will be taking and what you intend to do with them. 1 megapixel Almost obsolete, you might still find these in cell phones, PDAs, and desktop 'web' cameras. They're OK if you only intend to email pictures to other people and those people aren't going to be printing them. 1.1 to 2 megapixels Only slightly better than the 1.'0
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