How much pixel digital camera do you suggest me?

we are a perfect family of four. two children and two adults. we regularly go for holidays, and we are looking for a good digital camera. how many pixels one should i buy? remember, i have to be able to send all the pictures i have taken to my family by e-mail.

I think mine's 6.1 and the quality is brilliant.

I would recommend a minimum of at least 4-5 million pixels. Anything less and you will be compromising picture quality.

I would say 4-5 then. The only reason to go larger is for the ability to enlarge the picture larger than 8X10 without significant reduction in picture quality.

i'd go with 5 at least, if you want your pictures to be great quality =)

I use a 2.3 mega pixel for smaller files to send. The greater the number of mega pixels-the larger the file size!:-)=

The higher the amount of megapixels, the better quality of the picture. I have 10 Million megapixel camera that takes brilliant photos and is really easy to use. Its the Casio EXLIM Z1000. It has so many features as well as a really high amount of megapixels - you can take photos in cartoon mode, black and white, and can store small video clips. It comes with all accessories to connect straight up to the computer so it will be easy to email the photos.

First get a decent camera, I really like the Kodak ive got, mine is a few years old now and is 2million pixels and gives great pictures, you can get much higher now but would definately say a good quality camera gives better results

You really don't need more than 3 megapixels unless you want to make huge blowups. As it is, a 3 megapixel picture at highest resolution will be much too large for emailing. You'll need to downsize it.

anything above 3 is ok.. mine is 5..kodak z730. gr8 pics.

the answers you received were all correct. You really don't need any more than 3-4Mpix. However- few cameras sold today are less than 5Mp, with 6-8Mp being the norm, and some 10Mp cameras are out there.

The key here is that more pixels aren't always better. Really- the size of the detector is more important than the number of dots on it, as when the dots get small- two problems come into play. 1. image noise. 2. optical diffraction effects. So- more is not always better.

I suggest checking out a few different digicam styles- and see what you like. a sub compact? a regular? an ultra-zoom or- a DSLR. Personally- I like cameras that do well in low light conditions- like indoors (such as the Fuji F20, F31fd, S6000) or cameras with 28mm wide angle lenses- rather than the more typical 37mm. Also- many cameras have some type of optical image stabilization- which is a nice feature.

so- don't just look at the number of pixels. It will be far more important to you to get the camera that, for instance, has an LCD that you can see in the sunlight.

Just send the picture by email, then you don't need more than 1Mega pixels.

If you need to be able to print out at 8"x10" then you need 6Meaga pixels.

Hope that helps.

6mp

to get the basic quality of an 8x10 at leat 4 mega pixels.

depending on the size of the picture you want to send. i would suggest something 4-6 million pixels.

6.1

The highest number of megapixels + the best quality you can afford (preferably with an Optical zoom lens, not a digital zoom).
Here's a selection I'm particularly keen on:

Fuji Finepix A700 - 拢89.50
7.3megapixels, 3x Optical Zoom
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_revi...
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/wormdanglecou...

Fuji Finepix F20 - 拢103.95
6.3megapixels, 3x Optical Zoom
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_revi...
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/wormdanglecou...

Fuji Finepix S5200 / S5600 - 拢122.90
5.0megapixels, 10x Optical Zoom
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/wormdanglecou...

Fuji Finepix S6000fd / S6500 - 拢198.57
6.3megapixels, 10.7x Optical Zoom
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_revi...
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/wormdanglecou...

Olympus SP-510uz - 拢150
7.1megapixels, 10x Optical Zoom
http://www.steves-digicams.com/2007_revi...
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/wormdanglecou...

resizing them for e-mailing is a pretty simple task (usually takes me less than 2mins a pic) if you've got the software to edit pictures.

I rekon around 6mb would be good, can print good prints upto around A3-A2 from that Would recomend Fuji or Canon. I have a D-SLR a EOS400D