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I agree, but am not optimistic

voyager529 6th Mar 2009

I've said for a while that for the vast majority of users, anything north of 8 megapixels is overkill. 90% of my friends' photos end up on Flikr/Photobucket/Myspace/Facebook, where they're squashed down to 2 heavily-compressed megapixels anyway. Lighting and sensor compensation for sub-optimal lighting has always produced better results, and I hope that Olympus sticks to their guns about holding the line at 12MP.

The problem is that companies like to make money. And in the words of George Carlin: "Remember how dumb the average person is...and realize that half are dumber than that". If every camera on the Olympus shelf is 12MP, and Canon/Nikon/Sony/Fuji/Kodak release a 13MP camera, people will end up getting that instead, thinking that it's a better camera. Once 12MP becomes the bottom of the MP barrel, you can bet that Olympus will release a 15MP camera to stay competitive.

Behold, the downside of capitalism: what sells is not always what's best, and what's best rarely sells.

Joey