Deciptive ad on 12MP digital camera...

I have recently noticed a lot of those ultra-thin and super cheap 12
MP camera. The old saying "If it's too good to be true... it is"
applies here. The fine print always read something like 3Mpix sensor
with 12Mpix interpolation. Translation: a cheap 3Mpix camera whose
image is blown up to about 4000x3000 pixels to fake 12Mpix images.

This is probably worse than CRT monitor companies claiming monitor has
bigger size than actual viewable size and the fine print is easily
missed.

I think I smell a possible lawsuit in the future for deceptive
marketing practice to force the cheap camera ads to reveal the true
image size in much bigger print and state the claimed resolution is
only through interpolation.
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:46:55 GMT, Impmon wrote:


>I have recently noticed a lot of those ultra-thin and super cheap 12
>MP camera. The old saying "If it's too good to be true... it is"
>applies here. The fine print always read something like 3Mpix sensor
>with 12Mpix interpolation. Translation: a cheap 3Mpix camera whose
>image is blown up to about 4000x3000 pixels to fake 12Mpix images.

It could be worse: it it had a 12mp sensor in the same space it would
be no finer quality but a lot noisier.

Digital camera buyers need to start looking at sensor size when getting
anything over 3MP.