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Digital cameras: more pixels, more choices.

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| November 01, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2003 Consumers Union of the United States, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Today you can expect to get high-quality Prints--even 8x10 glossies--from an inexpensive digital camera. That's the kind of performance that wows first-time users and continues to propel digital-camera sales. By year's end, 30 percent of households will own a digital camera, according to InfoTrends, a Massachusetts-based research firm. Two trends fuel that growth.

More camera for the buck. A few years ago, the simplest digital was a 1-megapixel model (good for snapshots) selling for about $300; the big step-up was to a 3-megapixel model (better for enlargements), for about $800. Now a mainstream camera has 3 megapixels and may cost less than $300. The big step-up ...

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