Deciding How Many Megapixels You Need

Get the Perfect Amount for Your Photo Needs
Probably the most significant feature when choosing a digital camera is the number of megapixels, which determines the quality of your photos. Choose too few for your needs, and your images will suffer. Choose too many, and you might be spending more cash than necessary.

For most people, however, deciding on the elusive perfect number can be tough. Below is a guide to help you choose, including what size prints you can expect to get and basic prices. (The prices, however, can fluctuate wildly based on extra features, and the cost per megapixel is constantly getting lower and lower):

2 megapixels or less

  • This is typically found on smaller, inexpensive cameras or cameras in combination with other devices (such as cellphones or PDAs).
  • It will be hard to make a high-quality print of any size, but these are just fine for e-mailing photos or posting photos for a personal web site.
  • I wouldn’t recommend it for family portraits or if you really need a nice-looking print.
  • Expect to pay $100 to $150 for the camera alone, more for a combo unit in other retail shops.

3 megapixels

  • This is actually a good compromise between picture quality and low price for most casual photographers.
  • You can print lovely 4×6 images, decent 5×7s and, depending on the camera, might even knock out a good 6×9 or 8×10.
  • You will pay around $150 to $250 in other retail shops.

4 megapixels

5 megapixels

6 megapixels and up

  • Wonderful image quality, but high price tags. You can print large photos, even 11×14 or perhaps more, with satisfying results.
  • There are some high-megapixel cameras coming out with lower price tags than most, but they usually have very few features.
  • Unless megapixels are the only thing you care about (it shouldn’t be), don’t get a camera that sounds outrageously inexpensive for its megapixel range.
  • In this category, expect to pay $450 and up, up, up in other retail shops.
  • Now You Can Get It Much Cheaper In Our Shop! See Our Digital Cameras With Six Megapixels or More

Posted by Maplenotes® elecShop™ on June 22, 2007. Continue Reading

MP4 Players? Isn't now all MP3s?

Don’t worry!

MP4 Players we sell are no different from the normal MP3 Players you have. Our MP4 Players play MP3 musics just like any other MP3 Players.

Often referred to as an MP3 Video Player, an MP4 Player incorporates a colour LCD / OLED screen to enable viewing of videos as well as full colour menus for selecting MP3 music and other multimedia options. MP4 Players are easy to use, appealing to a wide range of consumers, and highly popular in every country’s electronics markets worldwide.

Different Digital Video Player Capacities

The video player hardware built into the MP4 Player enables high quality playback of video media files stored on the device’s flash memory. The bigger the memory of the MP4 Player, the more music and videos you can store. For example, a 4GB MP4 Player can hold more than a full length movie; and if you are mainly using your MP4 as a portable audio player, you will find a 1GB MP4 Player or a 2GB MP4 more than adequate for holding hundreds of your tunes. If you are searching for cheap MP4 Players start by looking at 512MB MP4 Players.

The newest hot-selling Digital MP4 Players are Flash MP4 Players in 4GB capacity. (A Flash Video Player has solid-state flash memory for storing data, meaning no moving parts and low energy consumption.) If you find an MP4 Player here that you think could be a hot seller in your market you can ask our Customer Support staff about the device and directly order samples here through our online direct-sale shop.

MP3 and MP4 Players

The MP3 and MP4 Players you will find in our online catalog are CE and (if applicable) FCC compliant, and we can deliver / dropship to multiple destinations. There are no minimum order restrictions – you can order single item samples of the Portable Video Players or other electronics. The higher quantity you order, the better your price will be.

Popular products to check out include the new and unique Watch MP4 gadget – an MP4 Video Player built into a digital wristwatch – and also don’t miss our “Elite MP4 Player” – a digital video player with a camera / camcorder built in. If you’ve seen an iPod Video Player you are going to be impressed with how a non-branded Chinese personal video player can measure up to the big name MP4 Video Players in terms of multimedia functionality, and intuitive ease of use.

MP4 Players are Portable Media Players (PMP)

MP4 Players are portable media players (PMPs) that will play back stored videos / movies on the built-in TFT / LCD screen, as well as playing your music files (MP3), and letting you view photos (JPG) and often text (TXT). The prices of these MP4 Players are incredible considering how new the technology is.

MP4 Players – easy to use

The Digital MP4 Players you can order from elecShop™, are easy to connect to a computer and intuitive to use. Using the supplied USB cable the user can connect the MP4 Player to a PC and (in Windows 2000 / XP) instantly have a connection for simply dragging and dropping media files to and from the MP4 Player memory. There is no need to install drivers. This is much easier than other Branded players, which require installation of proprietary software to be able to transfer MP3 and MP4 songs and videos to the players.

Filetypes supported by MP4 Players

Check the descriptions of the MP4 Players for details of which media filetypes are supported by the digital music / video player. All MP4 Players will play MP3 format music, and most will also play WMA tracks. Most Digital MP4 Players require conversion of videos into a native filetype before the media will display correctly on the personal video player screen, and where this is the case, the devices are supplied with media conversion software.

Almost all MP4 Players can also be used to store and display your digital photos in JPG / BMP / GIF format, as well as show text files.

Posted by Maplenotes® elecShop™ on June 21, 2007. Continue Reading