If you are trying to stay under $150 then you should get the highest MP you can get for that money. At that price you will get an ok camera with ok performance. Like said earlier, MP means nothing over about 8 MP, and that rings especially true in cheap point and shoot cameras. Their sensors are made smaller and they cram a bunch of MP's onto that small sensor. Therefore those MP's actually read less information because of that. Don't get me wrong though, you can still get really decent pics out of cheap cameras. My recommendation, save for a bit and get a $450.00 Nikon D40. SLR's FTW.


P.S. - I used to sell cameras at Wolf Camera.