You'll get little argument from me, I happen to think that 16mp is all
you really need to make decent 13x19 prints with some pixels left over
for moderate cropping, and serious overkill for the uses most people put
their cameras too in the modern era. The only reasons I expected 24mp
in an APS-C body was, yes the marketing race in megapixels, and being
able to share most of the hardware between a 24mp APS-C and 24mp FF
camera. Pentax, (well now Ricoh, though it does seem strange to type
that), and I'm sure other manufactures, do that a-lot and it makes
perfect sense from a manufacturing and development standpoint.
On 9/20/2013 2:02 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
P.J. Alling wrote:
Really, I expected a 24mp sensor
I didn't expect it, nor do I want it. The Nikon D800 is notoriously
finicky about needing only top-quality, premium glass to take
advantage of its resolution and putting 24 megapixels into an APS-C
area results in even greater pixel density than that. I'll stick to
full-frame for those kind of pixel counts (in fact, I'd have preferred
if they'd kept it at 16 MP, though I understand the marketing reasons
why they didn't).
If the dual card slots are SD and CF I might even be interested in
this camera (if all this is really true) but I expect they'll be two
SD slots.
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