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This is something I caught with my Canon G2 on macro, at 4MP.

Ah, Fred's thinner brother

Agreed, pixel count is the least important feature of modern cameras. 8Mp pictures from my Sony DSC-F828 get resampled down to 1Mp or so for most purposes, anyway.

BTW, I am currently drooling over Sony DSC-R1, which, with sensor more than five times bigger than 828's, is probably free of damned purple fringing, the only beef I have with F828. Besides, the lens starts at even wider angle (although the zoom is only 5x, not 7x: 24-120 vs. 28-200 35 equiv); I often run out of the zoom range on the wide side, never on tele. Higher ISO rating and supposedly lower noise (again the result of relatively huge sensor) would also come handy. Does anybody have any experience with R1?

Then again, all this talk about entirely pocketable 3 or 4Mp, 3-4x zoom wonders with image stabilization and what not also got me wondering.... I have to repeat: "I don't need two digital cameras!"
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