I have several A3 prints hanging around the house that I took on the E1, and to be honest, there is little to choose between those and others that I have taken on 35 mm or 645 film cameras.

So, to answer your question, I don't find the E1's pixel count a limiting factor. Indeed, my biggest gripe with newer cameras is that they have millions of pixels that I just don't need or want, resulting in bigger files, slower processing times and unnecessary sensor noise.

Many of the images that I take for my day job are used to illustrate reports, and are either printed on a colour laser printer or in Adobe Acrobat files. Excess file size is therefore an issue for me (especially when some of my reports contain fifty or more photographs), so I reduce all of my files to 1.4 MP when processing in Adobe Camera Raw. This produces perfectly acceptable images, and I always have the option of going back to the original Raw file if I need a full resolution image.

I also have a Canon G9 that I use alongside my E1. The G9 is a brilliant little camera, but in my opinion is spoilt by having far too many pixels. In my view it would have been much, much better with just 5 or 6 megapixels. After all, how many people who take photographs on compact cameras will ever want or need to print them to A2 size and above?