Mark wrote:

Does anyone know why it is like this considering the different
megapixel specification for each camera? I would have thought that the
5 meg camera would have larger jpegs.


It sounds like your camera uses more compression. The compression throws
away a lot of the image detail. Yours throws away more than his.

If you both take similar photos of the same scene, and if you both make
8x10 prints, does one camera produce better looking prints than the other?

Bob