Re:Megapixel shmegapixel (Score 1)

To be precise the 35mm refers to the width of the complete strip of film. The image size produced is 24mm x 36mm, for a diagonal of 43.2mm. Until now the image size of Canon Digital SLRs has been 16x24mm, hence the requirement to apply a 1.4 multiplier to lens focal length, which causes all sort of problems for users of wide angle lenses. The most significant benefit of this new camera is that it has a full size (IE 24x36)sensor. As I put in a post above 11Mpixel is not quite there with film SLR quality yet: a "consumer" SLR lens gives about 13 Mpixel equivalent, "Pro" lenses up to 22 Mpixel.