How much Megapixels digital camera have you used till now?

I have used Olympus 12 MP for several months now. Before that, I used Panasonic 7 MP. If I'm not mistaken, the gap before I buy Olympus is about a year. But mega pixels has grown too much. At the time I bought Panasonic 7 MP, cameras with 8 and 9 MP are booming. And right now, 12 MP is standard for digital cameras. It is only a year ! I can tell that even if I have 12 MP camera right now, I only use 3 MP, same as I used to use with Panasonic. I wonder is it really worth it to expand MP real fast?

My digital camera is Fuji S9600 and it is 500 megapixels. I like it. If I will buy another digital camera, I will buy something like Nikon D90. It is a digital camera I like. I love China

My cameras range from 10Mp to 18Mp, but don't be mislead: more pixels only mean better pictures if the camera is properly designed to capitalise on them. You have to take into account the size of the sensor, the size of the individual sensor sites, the space between them and the software in the camera that supports them. On a full frame DSLR, 21 megapixels is great. On an APS-C SLR, it is a potential disaster, and on a compact camera it is useless! In fact, Canon took their top-line G10 (Expert Camera of the Year in 2009) and reduced the pixel count from 14.7mp to 10mp this year, because of the noise generated by the high pixel count made the camera unsuitable for low-light use.

Many thanks for the BR, it's much appreciated.

Pixel Quality higher than 7 is already considered as a good pictures. I'm still using REBEL XT or the 350 D in canon and yes it is a professional DSL cam with battery-grip and all and wouldn't you believe it is only 8.5 mega pixels? The picture quality and the sharpness is still very good. That is all.

Well before xmas I was using a 8MP camera (Canon), but now I use 12MP camera (Sony).

hi friend, I will use a digital camera when i going to tours i take some beautiful places. I used a sony digital camera,Its a 10 mega pixel camera,high quality,3xzoom,etc Recently i have purchased a canon camera.It was very nice and better than sony. Canon its a 12 mp,high quality,face detection,3xzoom,excellent camera. have a good day.

my digital camera has 7.5 i think.. and my phone has 2mp.. but the other day we were taking pictures and my friend who had bought a new phone with 8.5 mp.. (can't remember how many mp but i know it was higher than my digital camera's mp) took the same pictures and when we both loaded it on facebook.. my digital camera with 7.5mp took better pictures. i guess it was because phones take slight more compact size picture compared to digital camera but since we're talking about mp.. my conclusion is mp doesn't matter much. hahaha. 7.5 mp camera is still good.

I always use the 10MP camera canon

Thank you for your interesting question.About 5 years ago I had a Sony Cybershot Camera and it had 5.1MP, adequate for my needs and extremely easy to use. Eventually that broke but, because of the way Sony keeps replacing its products I was unable to buy the same model, so had to buy another Sony Cybershot that was a 7.1MP, something like that. It was higher anyway. Which camera do I like best? Well, I took more photos with the first one because of its ease of use and the quality of the pics on my computer were excellent. Whenever I tried to download the 7.1 pics the quality was a tad fuzzy (probably because of my screen resolution of my monitor) so I had to change the camera settings to a 5.1MP like my original camera lol. So, yes, I preferred the lesser MP camera, which is interesting isn't it?

I have used 10.1 effective megapixels from Nikon P80. World’s smallest 18x zoom camera. Powerful 27 to 486mm (35mm or mat equivalent) 18x optical Zoom-NIKKOR lens

Mine is 8 MP, I'd like to have 10 but more is really quite pointless unless you have very good optics which you don't have with a normal point and shoot, and not always with an DSLR either as they are quite expensive. But it is a very easy to sell cameras by saying that 12 MP is better than 10 or 8 MP.

WOW! 12MP is good enough to have best quality pictures. Plus, the brand that you had, Cannon. Mine is just 7.1MP Ixus 70, also by Cannon. This is my first digital camera which I bought 3 years ago.

Nice to see that you also uses canon camera as i use..i am using CANON POWERSHOT 720IS it is a 8MP camera and i am very happy with it.this is the only camera i brought up till now, I don't know much about the good photography but i think CANON and NIKON are good for the photography is concerned and for other regarding to the formfactor and ease of use i think SONY is good in the consumer camera range as they are compact,slim n *** and easy to use.