You know, I've been observing my images and thinking about the stuff I have shot with my Canon 10D, Canon 20D, Canon 1Ds Mkll and my Pentax K10D's and K20D's. I have also shot with pretty much every Medium Format camera and digital back available.
I JUST DON'T SEE ANY SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANY OF THEM WHEN PRINTED TO A LARGER THAN STANDARD MAGAZINE FORMAT!!! That being around A3. Perhaps color nuance and some grain differences when I shot at 400 or 800 iso.
I have been published with all of the above camera's. All of the magazine's I have been published in are very high grade Trendy Press book quality magazines. The output out of all of the above camera's were more than adequate for my needs.
My point is this. In terms of resolving power and for most support that most of us would imagine being published in, pretty much all of the newer DSLR's out today could be used for professional application, if you know their limitations.
In fact my last shoot I did with the Pentax K20D was over kill considering the size of the support i.e. about 8x10 inches. In fact I had to reduce the image size to get down to 300 dpi for Pre Press. I would have been quite comfortable with a 8-10 mega pixel DSLR. The only grain I see when published with a 10 mega pixel camera in double page landscape format is the "tram" grain of the printing press of around 133 dpi.
Why do I bring all of this up...Pixel Peeping is a total waste of time.
Go out and enjoy your toy and use it to express who and what you are.
Ya know, I've been playing around with a Canon D60... It's not too bad, although I'm not sure if 6.x MP is quite enough, my 20D clearly is fine @ 8MP, but 6 is starting to get down to a level where it might be better to have a few more pixels...
As an aside, the shutter in this old thing sounds WAY nicer than any of my more modern equipment...
Ya know, I've been playing around with a Canon D60... It's not too bad, although I'm not sure if 6.x MP is quite enough, my 20D clearly is fine @ 8MP, but 6 is starting to get down to a level where it might be better to have a few more pixels...
As an aside, the shutter in this old thing sounds WAY nicer than any of my more modern equipment...
It really all comes down to knowing what is the best tool for the applications at hand. If you have that understanding, everything falls in to place.
Ha...someone asked me the other day why I would spend more money on a 12mp D700 when I could get 16mp D7000 for about half the price !!! I didn't have time to explain.
Pixel is the sensor cell that captures the light (color information). Larger the cell gets, better for it to read the light information (not necessarily more information). So, with that logic, larger cells captures better looking spectrum than smaller cells. Algorithm calculated between the cells would be better with the larger cells.
Smaller size sensor with more cells probably not a good idea, instead of larger sensors with less cells I prefer. That's why full frames give better quality images then smaller size sensors, because each sensor cell is larger (in most).
Getting down to having large size image vs smaller size, well, it's the quality and sharpness of the photo image, rather than something to do with the print itself. Post Process is probably more relied on for smaller size images pixels... depending on the job, out of camera quality probably preferred by the photographers.
It really depends on the photographer and the project.
Having said all that, with the improved technology and better ways to line those cells in sensors make things much better for the new cameras and photographers. not only out of camera images are improving, post process programs are improving as well.
Exactly. For instance my 8 year old Olympus E1 has only 5MP and a smaller 4/3rd's sensor to boot. But that Kodak sensor it carries is renowned for it's color reproduction. When the E1 first came out it was a photographic tool of choice for many professional wedding photographers.(still is to some) Another golden oldie that shared that honor was (still is)the Fuji S5 Pro with only 6MP. Both camera's are build like the proverbial tank.
Ps. The E1's shutter must be one of the nicest in the business. A soft and reassuring dampened sound.
