According to a story over on Nikonians.org there’s an article in today’s New York Times (free registration required), in which technology writer David Pogue discusses the imminent end to the “megapixel race” in point and snap digital cameras.

The artcile also touches on the recent announcements from Konica-Minolta, Nikon, and others to exit the film business. To quote Pogue:

“After 10 years of hearing how they need more, more, more megapixels, are consumers really expected to believe that eight megapixels will be the end of the line?”

In my opinion, we should have been done at 5 megapixels. What many people are buying now are compact cameras that produce huge files of fuzzy photos and what good is that? Why fuzzy? Because the lenses on smaller cameras just aren’t that good. Neither are they very fast. And without speed, camera shake is going to be a bigger factor because of the slower shutter speeds used.

What do you think? When will the madness stop?