Is it foolish to buy a camera with 40-plus megapixels? Photographers are still pushing for higher megapixel count, but that may be too many. I will demonstrate in this and the following article that many of us don’t necessarily want or need all the 40 or 60 megapixels that some modern cameras deliver. Looking back, increasing the camera pixel count was necessary, but now it has become a burden and delivers more than many of us require. It was back in 2001 when I first bought my first digital camera. It was a small, compact camera that took 1.5-megapixel images. Looking at those pictures now — mostly snaps of my family when my son was born — there’s not that much difference between them and the 6” prints I got from a compact film camera. The image quality wasn’t great, especially in dynamic range, and the photos couldn’t be enlarged much. Nevertheless, for family snaps, it did an okay job. For serious photography, I stuck with my Olympus OM2n 35mm film SLR.…