I have a Canon Ixus 500. Its served me well but looking for something a bit better. I've been condsidering a Panasonic FX500 but it has a smaller CCD than the Canon (1/2.33'' I think). At 10million pixels is this going to be silly to try to cram all these onto that sensor? The Canon has a larger 1/1.8'' CCD and 5 million pixels. Is it possible the newer camera will be noisier than the old one?

Why do the companies insist on making a big deal about pixels? Lenses and CCDs are surely more important?

So does anyone have an FX500?