So PC Magazine went out to the PDN Photoplus show, and they went over the array of products out there and they left with one interesting question: is the megapixel race in digital cameras over?

My answer to that?  No.  Of course not.  The hell are you thinking, the megapixel race being over….come on!  The sheer naivete!

That’s like asking if the processor race in computers is over!  Or the pixel race in HDTV.  You don’t think they’re looking for a way to get up to fifty megapixels or more?  You don’t think Kodak would love to bow the gigapixel?  No way.  No electronics company in its right mind will ever look at its product and say, hey, you know what?  That’s good enough.  Let’s just stop right here.

That is never going to happen.

Of course, it may be that the RACE is over.  That most people won’t really notice a huge difference between a ten and a twelve and a fourteen megapixel camera’s results.  I still get by pretty fine with a three megapixel, myself.  But maybe, the mad dash of constant improvement is over.  And if that’s what they meant, then maybe.  I can understand that.  The public might well be sufficiently layman to not easily tell the difference, and if so, then maybe the war is over.