Originally Posted by reeftool
My first digital was a 2 megapixel Fuji finepix2650 that takes great shots and I still use it from time to time. I have made 8x10 prints that look ok. The megapixel thing reminds me of the clock speed insanity of the Pentium 4 computers. They got faster and faster chips but didn't perform much better and used more electricity than the refrigerator. If you notice, they now don't even mention clock speed of chips any more. The newer chips have much slower speeds but perform much faster due to a better design.
Reeftool, as an IT guy I totaly concur with what you said. The difference though is that Intel realised that the megahertz race was ultimately bad for its own image and switched sooner rather than latter. Of course AMD's fine designs of the time helped too. It was funny to see the first C2D procs @1,83 GHz rutinely smoking Pentium 4s above 3.2 GHz and of course current designs are even better. Here we have a mass hysteria amond ALL the p&s camera mfgr without one single clearer mind to introduce sensors with less Mp and better noise, DR and so forth. Fujifilm tried something in the past and it wasn't a big comercial succes even though the likes of F30 were damn good cameras.
Radu