Camera Digital camera, budget - 7.5k

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serpentile

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i want to buy a good digicam within Rs.7.5k having good image shooting capability and anti-blur. I listed canon powershot a480,590is or kodak m1063. Please help me pick one or suggest better alternatives :huh:
 
i am quite happy with the digicam bt it shows somewhat grainy pictures in certain dimlight condition in iso 250[auto mode]..... how can i improve this???
 
serpentile said:
i am quite happy with the digicam bt it shows somewhat grainy pictures in certain dimlight condition in iso 250[auto mode]..... how can i improve this???
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The problem is that the A1100 stuffs more MP into the same chip. Sure, you can potentially get more detail, but you'll only really see it in pictures printed in sizes above 11x14. Sorry, but for a point and shoot, I think that 12MP is just too much to work with.
Let me explain. I came across an interesting article today about how more mega pixels is not necessarily a good thing. According to Image Engineering – a company that does testing of digital cameras for photo magazines in Germany – the quality of digital pictures has steadily decreased since the state of the art was six megapixels back in 2004. And because they don’t have a “dog in this hunt,†they put forth a compelling argument for buying new digital cameras with less mega pixels and not more.

The argument is essentially this: CCD chips on point and shoot cameras a smaller and as such, fitting in more pixels causes them to lose light sensivity. Sure, there’s more data on the chip, but the chip can’t absorb the light data and what it ends up with is a picture that has more noise than image quality. In addition, the more megapixels a camera has, the larger the lens it needs to provide the clarity it deserves and prevent diffraction due to a loss of detail with smaller apertures. But since we’re talking portable point and shoots here, those large lenses simply aren’t being made.

Finally, with larger mega pixels comes longer saving time due to their requires huge storage capacity, or more compression if not storing images in RAW format. The result is a noisier image and a dissatisfied camera user who thirsts for high quality and speed but fell into the trap of "more must mean better."

In the end, relying on a smaller MP that can balance all these needs may indeed be a better answer.
 
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