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Originally Posted by altis

There's a good discussion about this here:
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm

Ken suggests 7.2 megapixels for a 10 x 8 print so I'd say 6 would be fine. I nearly always shoot at 5 mp even though my camera offers 9.1 mp!

If you want to know why you shouldn't buy a camera with too many megapixels read this:
http://www.dpreview.com/articles/compactcamerahighiso/

If you want to understand a bit more about digital cameras try some of these:
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/

That was an excellent read, thanks