Quite. My Fuji is only 5mp, very small by today's standards but as I usually view the results on my pc and only occasionally print anything larger than 9"x5" I am quite happy with what I have got. The longer telephoto (real not digital) allows me to get closer to the object and thereby reduce the enlargement factor I may otherwise have to use when printing an image. If I was to regularly crop and enlarge a section of an image and then print A4 I would certainly be looking at a 12mp sensor or larger. There is also a question of cost. My Fuji is 5 years old and I would expect to be using it for at least another 5 years by which time I may be using a combined still/video camera on a smart phone for everything!

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