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In a digital camera, do you look for higher megapixles or lower?

im looking for a camera and i dont want a piece of crap.. im looking at the Kodak Easyshare V570 dual lens Digital Camera . any good reviews?

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I bought a Canon SD600 - many friends recommended it.
the more megapix the better
higher. megapixels refers to the millions of dots square per inch. The higher the megapixel, the crisper the image.
The higher the megapixels the clearer the photo will look.
Pixels are important, but they are not the only thing that matters. For instance, the V570 has the pixels, but does not review all that well. See this page: http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/compare_post.asp?method=sidebyside&cameras=kodak_v570%2Ccanon_sd600&show=all and consider the Canon Powershot SD600. It's probably still to your tastes, but it is a better camera. See these reviews: V570: http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_reviews/v570.html SD600: http://www.steves-digicams.com/2006_reviews/sd600.html
Above 3megapixils and you are into professional photography and poster making capability. As camera's have gotten cheap and I do mean cheap you should go ahead and get as many megapixils as you want and look at other features as the deciding factor. What do you want to do and what is the camera advertised as being able to do. Megapixils should always have been the last factor, but the frantic scrabbling to get the highest megapixils did bring the price down to bottom. Telephoto lens for outdoor pictures would be number one for me.
look for higher but there more expensive
higher is generally better
Yeah its a nice camera. Higher is better, but thats OK.
The dual lens in that camera is interesting, but I would probably steer clear of Kodak cameras. I suggest that you stick to the following brands, in order of preference: Canon Panasonic Olympus Pentax Nikon Sony And yes, more megapixels is usually better, but once you get past 8 you really aren't improving image quality and you're getting noisier images. I would suggest that you look at Canon's Powershot A630 that's more or less in the same price category as the V570. It's got better resolution (8 megapixels) and much better image quality. Take care! Ignacio
it is not about the pixels it is about how big the sensor is...