What is a megapixel

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What is a megapixel with a digital camera, i'm thinking of buying a 3.2 megapixel olympus stylus 300
 
mega stands for million. i.e megatone, megabyte.
 
Thanks Mrchimp, that some part of it. AND also it means that it can take images up to 3.2 million pixels, and thats alot. the latest sony cam got 6Mga
 
my crappy camera can take 6 million *cough*interpolated*cough*
 
Except with hard drives...
...where megabyte means 1,000,000 or 1,048,576. Usually the former for marketing reasons, but the later for filesizes/capacity displayed in the OS.
and memory where it always means 1,048,576
 
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