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"Freelance photos"? For what? Newspapers? You do realize that a lot of pros were using 3-4mpixel dSLRs up until 1-2 years ago, and many still are?
Or did you mean "Freelance photos" in terms of "I think I know what I'm doing and I might want to try and sell some photos to someone"? Because that's not "freelance photography."
Prosumer digital cameras over 4-5Mpixel will have horrendous noise (or really bad "noise reduction", aka, "marketing-speak for blurring" to cover up noise), because the sensors are very tiny (the smaller the sensor, the more sensors per wafer. The more sensors per wafer, the more $$$$ per wafer.) The smaller each pixel on the sensor, the more amplification it needs- which equals more noise.
If you are expecting anything even remotely approaching, say, a 3-4 year old 6 megapixel dSLR where the sensor is four times the area of almost any consumer camera- you'll be horribly disappointed, especially in poor lighting conditions. My 10D shoots photos that have less noise and better focus at 400 ISO, than cameras on the market today with 2-4mpixel more resolution, shooting at 100 ISO.
Want a good example of this? Sony's 8MP F828 (or whatever the hell it was called) which came out shortly after the 10D. A lot of people went "ZOMG 2 MORE MPIXELS!" and switched. Too bad the sensor was a fraction of the size and one of the noisiest digital cameras of its time.
Canon's G series is also infamous for atrocious noise problems.
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