It would be considered about average, since many cameras today go up to 10 megapixels. However, 4 megapixels is still a good quality of picture, and as long as the camera serves its purpose, you should be alright!

4.0 will be a bit blurry when you print it out. the majority of mobile phones are 2Megapixel! mine is a 6, but I am looking to buy a 9.

Megapixels actually have little bearing on the quality of a photograph or a camera. Camera manufacturers just like to tout it as something that matters in order to make people believe that it's worth paying more for. Really it depends on how big you want your pictures to be. The more megapixels a camera has, the bigger the picture will be, but if you're just going to resize the picture anyway, you don't really need a camera with such a high resolution. What's most important in producing a good picture is color and tone. But to answer your question, 4 megapixels is about average. http://cameras.about.com/cs/choosingacamera/a/megapixels.htm http://www.dansdata.com/gz059.htm

4 Mega pixel is ok , I would say .. good enough for the maxi size printouts. There are other factors too like optical zoom, which is quite an important factor which we tend to overlook.

I have a 5.0 meg. panasonic and its fabulous!

Megapixels and quality are related but not the same thing. First you need to specify what you mean by quality; camera quality or image quality. Many high and low quality cameras have been with varying megapixel ratings. Since you haven’t told us which camera you have we have no idea if your 4 megapixel camera is an inexpensive point and shoot camera or a more expensive but older professional model SLR. Olympus did make many C frame cameras like the 4000 and 4040 that are very reliable, well made, and take great pictures. The number of megapixels tells you how tiny the individual ink dots there can be in each picture the camera takes. As of March 2007 there are many high and medium quality cameras sold that have somewhere between 6 and 10 megapixel image capabilities. The horsepower race for megapixels is never ending and at this time no commonly available consumer digital cameras approach the 35 megapixel approximation that 35mm film cameras are capable of. Even so, 4 megapixels is more than enough to give you more distinct image quality than you can see in a 4 x 6 print and holds up very well in 8 x 10 blow ups. It is difficult to share pictures via email if they are much over 800 pixels wide, because they are too large for most people to view easily with their email browser, and the files get too large. As a result most people who have high resolution digital cameras, even 3 megapixel cameras, have to reduce the image size and quality before they share their pictures. The place where high megapixel images come in handy is if you are printing a small part of a larger picture. A 3 megapixel picture might make a pretty good 8 x 10 blow up, but if you try to enlarge small part of the picture, like a portrait of 1 person in the picture, that enlargement will quickly become quite blurry. If you had a 10 megapixel camera you might be able to do the same thing and still have a pretty sharp image in the cropped enlargement. Simply put, the more megapixels you have the more detailed and sharp you pictures will be when you enlarge them. Unless you want enlargements over 8 x 10, or intend to crop the pictures, 4 megapixel pictures taken with a good quality camera will look just as good to you as those taken with a 10 megapixel camera. I would rather have a medium to high quality 4 megapixel camera than a cheap point and shoot one with 6 megapixels because I would be hard pressed to see the difference in 99% of my shots, and the better camera will outperform the lesser quality camera in many ways, such as flash range and durability.