My experience too, Ken. Often all the spec-peeping and measurebating produces heat but no light.
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 12:29 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Mark. > > I'm still shooting with a K20D and recently did a 24" X 36'' print (biggest > I've ever done) from a slightly cropped file that just blew me and others > away with it's detail. Its hard for me to justify a new body just for a ff > sensor or 24MP. > > Kenneth Waller > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Roberts" > <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: K5 RAW file size - yow! > > >> Kenneth Waller wrote: >> >>> So from your experience Mark, what has 24MP done for your photography? >> >> >> Several things. >> >> First of all, the 24MP has given me more options, like making a >> panoramic shot by cropping from a single frame rather than stitching >> multiple frames together (I usually don't shoot that way deliberately >> but sometimes, like one shot from GFM last year, I "see" the pano >> composition later when I get home -- I'm still pissed off that I >> brought the K-5 on that hike rather than the A850). I can also shoot >> stitched panos with three or even two shots, which makes stitching >> much faster and easier. >> >> The full-frame part lets me get better prints at a given size - often >> even when using non-megadollar glass. That goes contrary to popular >> wisdom, number crunching and pixel peeping: You'll read that >> high-megapixel full-frame cameras are much more demanding of glass and >> show the weaknesses of less-than-stellar lenses. Which is true. But >> it's usually seen making measurements or peeping at 100% magnification >> in Photoshop. But when making a print of any given size (let's say 12 >> x 18) the image from a full-frame camera requires significantly less >> magnification. An APS-C image gets magnified about 19:1 to make that >> size print. Full-frame gets magnified 12.7:1 so using the same lens on >> both, even if it's not a top-dollar lens, I can get a better print >> from full-frame. Sure, when your print size gets *really* big, and >> what you see on the print gets closer to what you see on your monitor >> at 1:1 you'll need megabuck glass on your full-frame. But apparently >> that is much bigger than the 13 x 19 that's my usual max. (Never say >> never, though: I have access to some big wide-format printers at >> school...) >> >> Making prints is a whole different game than pixel peeping. >> >> I expect Pentax will use a variant of the Sony 24MP sensor that's in >> the D600, which is fine by me. But a 36MP sensor intrigues me not for >> the additional (potential) resolution; I've been reading about its >> superior tonality in B&W (which I'm leaning toward more these days). A >> side effect of the Bayer pattern sensor, I expect - when you throw out >> your color information you probably need a little extra spatial data >> to make up for what you threw away in color data (similar to the way >> large-scale contrast can make lenses appear sharper in color than they >> "really" are in B&W tests). >> >> >> >> -- >> Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia >> www.robertstech.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. -- -bmw -- 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.
