Pascale...yeah...it's an 8 megapixel cam. i may have shot it on 5 megapixel though. we were on vacation, and i was a bit concerned we might run out of room to store our images on our laptop. yeah, i know we could have made back-up CD, but i think 5 megapixel images look just as good as 8 megapixel. Actually Pascale, i think the reason it looks so bad cropped even at high resolution is because i took such a crappy photo. why else would it look so bad? i can't think of any other reason really. Kort...thanks! :)