Sony Launches 13.6MP Compact P&S

**Matt Molnar** · 2008-02-25, 05:17 PM

Unless you have a case full of MemorySticks that you can't wait to fill with massive, okay quality photos, I don't know see any good reason to buy this. Well, at least it looks pretty cool.

http://www.digitalcamerareview.com/defa ... ewsID=3320

**adam613** · 2008-02-25, 05:36 PM

Wow. 13MP is too much even for a 22cm DSLR sensor...I can't even imagine what kind noise you'd get with that many pixels on a point-and-shoot...

**Matt Molnar** · 2008-02-25, 05:38 PM

You can crank it up to 3200 ISO for some real quality!

**moose135** · 2008-02-25, 05:40 PM

Come on guys, you know that more pixels = better pictures :P

**adam613** · 2008-02-25, 05:41 PM

Originally Posted by moose135

Come on guys, you know that more pixels = better pictures :P

Yeah, maybe on a Phase One digital back...

**T-Bird76** · 2008-02-25, 08:09 PM

It has 15mb of internal memory...enough to take one picture. lol As for noise with that amount of pixels, I wouldn't worry to much. The technology to reduce noise has come along way. Really though....what's the point of 13 megapixels??? Who the hell wants to see little Sally on a billboard in Grandma's house anyhow? LOL

**nwafan20** · 2008-02-25, 09:16 PM

Haha yeah, 13 mp is waay too much.

**heeshung** · 2008-02-25, 10:25 PM

It may be a marketing tool, since a lot of people still seem to be under the impression that more pixels=better pictures all the time.

**LGA777** · 2008-02-26, 09:43 PM

Look at these featuers

In-camera retouching options include an Unsharp Mask sharpening algorithm and Happy Face Retouch, which adds smiles to faces in post-process.

So anotherwords if I take a pic of my daughter with this camera and she wasn't smilling (which is actually pretty) rare I can add a smile right in the camera ? Also how would an unsharp mask work in camera ?

LGA777