To those who believe the megapixel race has ended ...
Rich wrote:
On Sep 21, 4:58 pm, James wrote:
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 21:26:04 +0100, wrote:
To those who believe the megapixel race has ended ...
... you're WRONG!
There have been some very exciting announcements of new photo
equipment in advance of Photokina, and there are probably one or two
surprises still to come. There have been new point and shoot
digicams, new superzooms, new high quality compact digicams (including
three with optical viewfinders), several new SLRs and a selection of
mirrorless cameras from Sony, Samsung and Panasonic.
But one trend is very clear, and that is that the megapixel race is
far from over. Notable announcements include the Leaf 80 MP digital
back for medium format cameras, Sigma's 46 MP SD-1 DSLR, Nikon's 16 MP
D7000 and the Pentax K-5, also with 16 MP. The pace of increase in MP
may have slowed slightly, but there is no sign of it levelling off.
There have also been some interesting studies where higher pixel densities
offset any effects from increased noise in the smaller photosites. Since
the base level noise is averaged throughout many smaller photosites the
noise disappears and the content's details become more visible.
There *is* a free-lunch that disobeys the laws of troll's-physics.
Smaller photosites does not automatically equate to lesser image quality,
It depends on sensor characteristics and processing but yes, smaller
pixels on the whole means lower image quality. Physics rules.
It means reduced dynamic range.
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