Musings about archival work and megapixels

For some time I have stubbornly held to my ways. Though I sometimes stick with notebook and pencil, more often I have used my computer so that I could just take notes while working with materials. While taking notes seemed to force me to work, read and plow through, I have always noticed so many people busy clicking away as they took digital pictures of the letters, notes, and whatever else constituted the special collection under examination. I found this odd. I also found it something to envy since I was not cool enough to have a digital camera that would permit me such on the spot copying. Well, this past Xmas my Father purchased a digital camera for me that has 7 megapixels. I really have no idea what a megapixel is--it in fact sounds like a cool movie theatre I would go to if I lived on the Skywalker Ranch. But whatever a megapixel is it allows me to take pictures of documents with text, not be very good at taking pictures, hell not even understand taking pictures and then when I transfer to a computer I can actually focus in and read this stuff. Even better, I still managed to discriminate. I did not just take a snapshot of everything--what I feared I might do if I went this route. I have decided I like megapixels.