Tom’s Hardware Guide have published a brief but fascinating interview with Chuck Westfall, Manager of the Canon’s Cameras Technical Information Department.

“Is there a theoretical limit on megapixels? Does the consumer care about high pixel counts?

“Consumers generally don’t care about really high megapixel counts. It’s the commercial studio that need to do double page spreads or 11 inch by 7 inch prints at 300dpi. We don’t think there will be a huge jump in megapixels, rather it will be incremental, like f-stops. The Canon 1DS Mark II is at 16 megapixels, our next camera might have 22 megapixels. “

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