[rfruit @ Feb 20th 2007 5:06PM]

I know it's not all about the megapixels, but isn't 6 a little low? Clearly 6 would still allow for great pictures, but Sony announced a 10 megapixel camera in the same press release and has had several 7+ megapixels cameras for over a year now.

Is 6 megapixels the sweet spot consumer cameras? Clearly at some point adding megapixels will be moot for most consumer uses, but I figured that point would be higher than 6...

[Joe @ Feb 23rd 2007 3:58AM]

The more pixels you squeeze into a sensor the smaller they have to be and the less light they can capture. The camera must then amplify the light captured and this causes noise in the image. This is why a large 6mp sensor typically used in an SLR camera is so much better than a tiny 6mp, 8mp or even 10mp sensor used in a typical consumer camera like this one. There are benefits to each though.

There are some errors in the pictures. It says 3.5" LCD in the text but 3.0" LCD on the features icon above the image of the camera. It also says it has a 6mp CCD sensor but Sony just announced a 6mp CMOS sensor with impressive video capabilities. Could this too be a misprint? Perhaps it really uses the CMOS (not CCD) sensor and the 2gb storage would make sense for video.