[photo-3d] Rating digital cameras

["Jim Harp" <matmail2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dan wrote:
> If anyone is interested, I saw a digital maera for $900 this weekend with
> 3.3 megapixel resolution - closer and closer to film resolution - that
also
> had the IBM 340 MB micro drive in it.

>That's interesting regarding the 340MB micro drive, although the 3.3Mpixel
>has already been surpassed.

Are there other important factors in determining the quality of a digital
camera besides pixel count?  Does 3.3 megapixels look the same regardless of
the camera?   (These aren't rhetorical questions;  I'm genuinely curious.)
Manufacturers of high tech gear have been known in the past to become
obsessed with achieving whatever the statistical measure of excellence is
without regard to the actual quality of the output.  Jim Harp