Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Larry, This is a quote from a photographer at the stock agency I belong to: >>>I think so. 10-12 mp is as good as 35mm film and a lot of shooters do not want to do the post processing on a 16-22 meg file. Think of the poor photojournalist who has to wrestle with 1,000 images of a football game and then FTP them back to the office in a hurry. 10-12 mp will cover a full page and that is all they need. A few commercial studio photographers will probably opt for a 50 meg hasselblad setup.<<<<<<< And another from the same group" >>> With the announcement from Pentax, Canon, Olympus, and soon Leica > digital M at Photokina of their new 10 mp slr camera's I wonder if the > industry > is going to settle more or less on 10-12 mp as a standard?<<<< Surely this pixel size is going to level out and as offered in the above maybe we're beginning to see it happen. If 10-12 megapixel is the same as shooting film why would it be necessary to make it higher and higher just for the sake of numbers and cost? Possibly pricing the gear out of reach to many potential buyers. I suppose there's a profit driven reason to some of it, but if as offered, the 10-12 is similar resolution as film why would we as shooters want more and more bigger and bigger? Quite frankly when most of us can hardly afford to pop $5000 grand for an M8, let alone 3 of them.:-( At what point does anyone see or feel a practical level will be reached? And what size do you think it might be. And why should it be bigger and bigger? ted Ted Grant Photography Limited 1817 Feltham Road Victoria BC V8N 2A4 250-477-2156