>>>  From what I've seen of mobile phone "pictures" and "videos", the 
>>> quality as so abysmal as to be laughable. I'm talking about video 
>>> that you'd actually want to *watch*! ;-)
>>
>> My camera takes still images at 3072*2304, but movies at 640*480; 
>> mobiles phones at 320*240 (or better now).
> 
> My camera is 3 megapixels. My mum bought one that's 5 megapixels. She 
> was all, like, "hey, my camera's better than yours!" Until we tried to 
> use it. And we discovered that my camera takes "pictures", and hers 
> produces grainy unrecognisible things.
> 
> I hypothesize this is due to my camera's 45 mm lense, and her camera's 
> 2.1 mm lense. >:-)
> 
> Having the best sensor in the world won't help you if you have crap 
> optics. So, yeah, telling me the resolution is interesting, but it isn't 
> the whole story.

Sensor size matters too. If it has 5 megapixels stuffed into a VERY tiny 
area, graininess will show up.

Or so I read.

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