Exactly, Godfrey... Not pushing here, but the downgrade fro 16mp to 12mp was a very welcome step in my life...
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 22, 2013, at 10:56 AM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> 33% more resolution and no AA filter? That's a big step up from the >>> k-5 on paper. We shall have to see what noise and DR looks like. >> >> resolution doesn't scale linearly with the number of pixels; with perfect >> lenses and sensors, it scales with the square root of the number of pixels; >> then you add the real world factors > > IMO, we passed the point a long, long time ago (around 5-10 Mpixel > resolution) where, assuming a quality sensor, it was anything like a limiting > factor in the quality of a photograph. > > I am still perfectly happy and confident shooting with my lovely old 2003 > Olympus E-1. 5 glorious Mpixels. Yeah, my other cameras are now all 8 to 18 > Mpixel, but the E-1 still produces beautiful photographs competitive with the > best of them. > > G > -- > 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. -- Boris -- 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.
