Megapixels aren't always the be-all, end-all metric for camera quality that many manufacturers and marketing types make them out to be, even at the largest extremes. In fact, counterintuitive as it ...

Camera vendors and consumer electronics retailers sell digital cameras as if the pixel count — the number of pixels a camera’s electronics can capture — is the most important measure of quality. I’m ...

One of the first features touted for point-and-shoot digital cameras is the megapixel count. For most people, though, megapixels don’t matter much. Here’s why, along with some other features to ...

When buying a digital camera, many people focus on just one factor: megapixels, the more the better. But that’s not the whole story. Lens quality, image-processing capability and even the size of the ...

What just happened? Canon has announced a 410-megapixel CMOS image sensor, setting a new record for the most number of pixels on a 35mm full-frame sensor. Before getting too excited, you should know ...