Scientific American Weighs In

Check out pages 34 and 35 of Scientific American, Oct. 2011.

The megapixel hype has breached the threshold of sanity and, at long last,
popular media and average consumers are now realizing that is mostly
marketing hype. It (more pixels are better) made some sense 15 years ago.

The important thing nowadays, for many average consumers, is the response
time of point and shoot cameras. Most of the current models are soooo slow
that precious moments are missed more often than they are captured.

Ignorant consumers are short-lived and so are their suppliers.