In a double interview at DC.watch, both Canon and Nikon managers confirmed that 2015 is very highly likely becoming the year of the new Megapixel race. And both also sounded very serious about their next steps into the mirrorless world with more “serious” propositions to come.
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What if they held a new high megapixel race and nobody came?
I hope the starter would join the party otherwise they’ll never get started!
16mp is all i need for normal shooting (x-t1)… more than 36mp makes only sense with bigger sensor size than full frame.. most lenses are just not good enough for that much MP on a full frame.
Your comment that “…most lenses are just not good enough for that much MP on a full frame” is not correct.
Anyone using a 50mpixel Full Frame sensor mounted to currently commercially available optics will find that the lenses _still_ out-resolve the sensor from wide open down thru f/11 (where physical limits of optical diffraction will come into play).
The simple way of thinking about this is that current lenses out-resolve 24mpixel APS-C sensors where the pixel density would merely equal a FF 50mpixel sensor. There’s no magic about this. It’s in the physics (as in science).
BUT… if you feel the need to buy a new lens or two, no one would stop you and the salesman would more than happy to take your money.
I guess DXO lab tests must all be wrong then! (0_o)
I am interested in an intermediate between the 24 and 12 mpix cameras, a 16 to 18 mpix solution with good resolution and good high iso values, in some way a better and less nostalgic Nikon DF type. In no way I will buy a 48 mpix camera to reduce my pictures to 6 mpix for a normal A3a print. I have to do that with a 16 mpix as well, but at least there is a bit of the whole remaining at 16 mpix, at 48 I doubt that we will see much of the resolution left in such a large reduction of size. On the end, except to have monster size raw files on the computer or excessive sized jpegs, this resolution serves absolutely to nothing. I know where the limits of the 24 mpix chip in APS-C are, it is sometimes a pain in the butt, so stop bringing the same limitations to FF now just to say we have the highest pixel count.
Todays medium format cameras are too bulky. Removing the mirror and reducing the focal flange distance will improve that a lot. I believe lens selection are the biggest challange.