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 120 MP Digital Video Camera Camcorder HD DV 27 LCD Black US $46.99
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Aven 26700-300 ZipScope USB Digital Microscope with 2 Mega-Pixel, 10x-50x Optical, 200x Digital Magnification List Price: $99.00 Sale Price: $74.90  |
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The Aven 26700-300 zipScope is a tabletop, 2.0 megapixel digital microscope that has a USB interface, eight white LED lights with two intensity settings, a snapshot button for image capture, optical magnification of 10X to 50X, and digital magnification of 200X... |
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NEW Charger for Sony CyberShot DSC-W50 6.0 M.P. Mega Pixels NP-BG1 + car plug Sale Price: $1.74 |
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Compatible Models / Replace PN : Sony CyberShot DSC-W50 6.0 M.P. Mega Pixels |
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BlackBerry Storm 9530 VERIZON PHONE NO CONTRACT + Unlocked GSM + World Cell Phone with 3.15 Mega pixel Camera List Price: $299.99 Sale Price: $154.99 |
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BlackBerry Storm 9530 Unlocked First BlackBerry touchscreen phone packed with messaging, document editing, and multimedia features; international GSM Acess V Cast, Music and Video services via fast EV-DO data network; GPS-enabled for turn-by-turn directions; use phone as a modem for your laptop 3... |
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American Dj Mega Pixle Led RGB Led Wash Fixture List Price: $349.99 Sale Price: Too low to display |
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1 meter stick of LED's that are color segmented, allows for great visual stimulation as well as nice color mixing, built in macro's allow for exciting chases. |
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Wildview 2.0 Mega Pixel Digital Camera with 30 ft Flash and 16 MB Memory List Price: $79.99 Sale Price: $62.57 |
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This Wildview camera has a 2.0 Mega Pixel High Resolution with 30 ft Flash Range. With wide angle coverage (PIR), this camera has a USB Output for PC Download and an expandable SD memory card slot. Comes with 16 MB Memory... |
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New High-Tech Vehicle DVR, featuring many function, HD-1280*720, 5.0 Mega Pixels, Swing Lens, 150° Wide Angel List Price: $190.00 Sale Price: $109.40 |
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Specifications: Pixel 5,000,000 CMOS Viewing angle of lens Wide-angel 150° Turning angle of lens 270° back and forth Resolution of video VGA-640*480, HD-1280*720 Format of video AVI Frame number of video 30fps Format of picture JPEG Pixel of picture 2560*1920 Night vision Yes Battery capacity 800MA Screen 2... |
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NEW LEVELONE 1-MEGA PIXEL 10/100MBPS DAY/NIGHT IP NETW (OBSERVATION & SECURITY) Sale Price: $250.63 |
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LEVELONE 1-MEGA PIXEL 10/100MBPS DAY/NIGHT IP NETWUp to 1280 x 800 for high-quality video and real-time viewingSupports H.264, MPEG4 and JPEG compressionPassive InfraRed (PIR) sensor for human temperature detectionBuilt-in white LED for low lux, microphone and speakerSimple audio/video on/off with 1-push 'Privacy Button'Integrated microSD/SDHC card slot for expandable storage64-channel monitoring software-supports CamSecure surveillance management softwareHigh-resolution quality and sharp sensitivity-ideal solution for 24-hour home security and surveillanceDistinct and stylish exterior mount unit with excellent features and qualityView live motion image anywhere through web browser via the Internet |
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4gb New 1.3 Mega Pixels Multifunctional Sports DVR F2 Camera with Mp3 Fm Torch Loudspeaker Free Shipping List Price: $98.55 Sale Price: $65.55 |
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1,Super small dimension, recording in all occasions easily 2,High resolution video record available under low illumination environment 3,Video output:640*480 VGA,25fps 4,Photo resolution:640*480,JPG 5,Build-in mini loudspeaker(2W),Play MP3 and FM radio available 6,HD PC camera function 7,Build-in 1400mAh high lithium battery 8,Night Vision |
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Zenex ZN-DV5280 8.0 Mega Pixels Interpolated Digital Video Camera- Black Sale Price: $84.99 |
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* 5.0 Megapixels (Interpotlated up to 8.0MP) * Display: 2.4" LCD Screen * External Memory SD/MMC Card (Max 4GB) * Image File Format: JPEG * Resolution Settings: - 3264x2448 - 2592x1944 - 2048x1536 - 1280x1024 - 640x480 * Interface: USB 2... |
Mucho Mega Pixels Is Just A Gimmick, Right?
Remember the term, "halftone"? A few years ago newspapers printed all photos in halftone, and if you looked very closely, you could see all the dots that made up the picture.
The print process they used could not print a smooth gradation from black to white like a photograph does. So they used the halftone process to make the picture with small dots. Each dot could then be any variation of white to black. The dots in the dark part of the image were black and the dots that made up the lighest part of the image had no ink at all.
Magazines have much better photos than newspapers because they use much smaller, and therefore many more dots. They also used different printing processes, inks, and smooth paper.
Digital Cameras have the same constraint as the newspaper presses - they can't record smooth gradations of color or tone because the camera sensor is also made up of dots called "pixels".
"Pixel" is short for "picture element". However, digital cameras have so many more pixels than a newspaper press has dots that the human eye normally can't see individual pixels when printed or shown on a computer screen. A mega pixel is one million pixels.
So think of a single pixel as one of those dots. The more you have, the better...sort of! Having a camera with a gazillion mega pixels can be like having a car with 800 horse power in Los Angeles traffic.
Just as an 800 HP engine uses a lot of gas, cameras that produce 12 million pixels create very large files. Too large for sending via email without first resizing. They also take a lot more time to download from the camera and they fill up a Hard Drive like a fire hose fills a bath tub.
If you want to take pictures and e-mail them to Grandma, or put them on your web site, or print them for the family album a 3 Mega pixel camera will do fine. Okay, so 3 Mega pixels is enough, so why would anybody pay extra for more?
Let's suppose you take a picture with your 3 megapixel camera of your basketball star making the game-winning shot.
Unless you are very close to the action, or you have a big expensive Telephoto Lens, your hero will only fill a small portion of the whole picture since your photo will contain about a third of the entire sports arena.
So now you have a great shot of your hero...and the other players, and the 500 people in the stands! No problem because your camera came with software so you can crop the image and enlarge your star so he or she will fill most of the final image.
With that software you are really trying to get a close up shot without a telephoto lens. THIS is when you will want LOTS of pixels! And here's why.
Your hero's image was made up of, say 100,000 of your 3 million pixels in the original photo. Now, since you cropped away most all the pixels except those of your hero, you are asking those 100,000 pixels to fill the space previously filled with 3 million pixels because the finished print will still be, say, 4 x 6 inches.
Your software actually preforms the required magic! Except now you still have 100,000 pixels, they just have tons of space between them.
Your software knows this looks bad, so it computes (guesses!) what color dots belong in those empty spaces and gives you enough pixels to make whatever size picture you want.
But only 100,000 are "real" pixels which the camera recorded. When your print includes too many "guessed at" pixels, you get a very poor enlargment and a really bad print because printers need all the "real" pixels they can get. Printers are much more demanding than a computer screen.
That is why a photograph can look great on the screen but be so bad when printed that you end up throwing it away.
The moral of this story is if you are going to enlarge a small portion of your picture, or you plan on enlarging the original photo, (especially for printing) you really want a camera that produces as many pixels as you can afford. If not, you can just ignore the pixel-race of the camera manufacturers and concentrate on finding one with other features that are important to you.
About the Author
Al Stewart has been a camera enthusiast for 5 decades. See how he uses his love of photography to create acrylic photo sculptures and other gift items at his web site: http://www.photocutouts.com He hand crafts photo ornaments, magnets, cake toppers, statuettes, etc. Check out his site, it's worth seeing!