The pictures on this site were taken with an Olympus C700 digital camera. The C700 is a 2.1 megapixel camera,
but what sets it apart from the rest of the point-and-shoot cameras is its 10:1 optical zoom.
The C700 has a 10x optical zoom and a 2.7x digital zoom, giving the lens a zoom range of 38-380mm
(35mm equivalence). With the digital 2.7x zoom engaged, the camera has a maximum focal length of 1026mm.
The 2.1 megapixel images print nicely at 5x7, but at 8x10 you can start to see their limitations. Still, I find that these images print quite acceptably at this size. A large limiting factor, however, is the limited ability to crop. While you can certainly crop some detail out of a larger image, the resulting image has fewer pixels and consequently can't be printed at large size. If you've ever done any darkroom work, the analogy would be pulling the enlarger head way up and masking the print paper to exclude those parts of the image that you don't want. In analog photography, the limiting factor is grain, which is far less limiting than running out of pixels.
With a digital camera, if this is something that you want to do, there is no substitute for having a large (huge) number of pixels to begin with.
The C700 is no longer made, and it has been replaced with the C750. Click here for more information.
The good news is that the C750 still has the C700's 10:1 zoom and it now has a 4x digital zoom, which gives this camera quite a bit of "reach." It is also a 4 megapixel camera.