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Originally Posted by Lisa
Seems like I have to trade off optical zoom for megapixels...or vice versa, in the cameras I've been looking at.
So that's really my question...if it's a choice between say 3x optical zoom and 5.0 megapixels, or 6x optical zoom and 4.1 megapixels...which do I want?
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You made me get out my user guide and actually read it.
Let's see I have a Cannon PowerShot A95, 5 megapixels, 4.1x digital (with a combined 12X with the optical.) Sounds like what I have is right in the middle of what you're talking about.
I can tell you the telephoto is amazing on this. It goes waaaay farther than the old days when I had a 200mm zoom lens I bought extra for my old "analog" SLR.
So between your example of 5.0 megapixels with 3X zoom and 4.1 megapixels and 6X zoom .... I'd suggest go with the 5 megapixels, because a 3X zoom is plenty, and a 6X is probably overkill, unless you want to take a closeup of the other side of the soccer field or the tops of trees.
In other words, I'd take the one up in pixels as opposed to the one with twice the zoom.