On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > In real world experience, how often has the sensor resolution directly > impacted the quality of your photos? > > What were the situations? How did you tell that sensor resolution rather than > something else was the key factor?
Depends what I'm trying to do. When working with a scene that contains a lot of fine detail, a scene that wants to be presented in a large scale print or projected with a high resolution device, I can easily see the difference between captures with a 3, 4, 5, 6, 7.5, 10, 12, and 16 Mpixel sensor at 1:1 resolution in an image processing program. Of course, since I've never had cameras with comparable sized sensors at all those resolutions that also could image the same scene with the same lens, it's hard to say with verisimilitude that it's just the sensor resolution that's at play. Of similar cameras and lenses, I can see the difference between 5 Mpixel and 12 Mpixel captures quite easily when comparing high quality prints at my normal large sizing (11x16 inch on 13x19 paper) but mostly with finely detailed subject matter and when I'm using a tripod or other steady to maximize capture resolution. For softer image content, the differences become pretty subtle until the imaged size is about double that. -- Godfrey godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
