These two terms come hand in hand when it comes to digital photos for the higher the number of pixels is commensurate the amount of bytes it takes to store it. Most people go to the highest
href="http://www.everythingaboutdigicam.com">megapixel camera they can get they hands on which is good, if you prefer to keep them in digital form and not get them printed. The printing process has the ability to handle only so much data onto a single say 5R print that your stunning 5 megapixel picture gets some of the details cut off else it spills over to the next frame. For digital storage and viewing, the higher the resolution the better for the more details you get but it also takes up a lot of space on your hard drive of flash memory to store them. At 5 Megapixels, a typical picture would occupy almost a megabyte, so imagine what a 10 mega would need? Keep the settings at an acceptable level on your digital camera if you would be printing them for more traditional use to avoid having truncated shots which can ruin the picture.
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