Originally Posted by mineistaken

I was mislead then.

I asked couple people, they both gave me this indicator as the most important spec in order to determine which is better (in terms of cheap point and shoots where specs are maybe less clear/different/all similar).

What specs would you say indicate which one (again, talking about low level point and shoot) is making better quality pictures?

Like if you had 2 camera specs, how would you try to determine which makes better quality photos auto mode?