> > So the bigger pixels produce lower noise. Fine, no argument there. > But that is not the reason to bloat the pixel numbers just for the > sake of it in camera. > > Fuji do it for one reason: to be able to say their cameras produce > bigger pixel-resolution images. They could, sensibly, just as easily > say their camera produced better images with lower noise ... but that > is not the question the customers are asking when they buy. > It was merely just a dozen of moons ago when everyone tended to say that it's not the camera, but the dude behind it who takes the pictures. Now, believe it or not, it is either the number or the size of the pixels. What is that dude supposed to do? Peeter