As to where things are going on the megapixel front I think one need
only look here, at least for the short term.
<http://www.16-9.net/lens_tests/best19_21.html>
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[19-21mm] Despite being a highly desirable focal length for
landscape,interiors and architectural photographers, at the time of
writing no uncompromised retrofocus SLR lens exists that can resolve to
the limit of the latest 13MP and 16MP 35mm sensors across the frame.
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So, although the best of the best in this test, the Contax, Leica, Nikon
and Oly 35mm lenses have acquitted themselves very well in testing,
*none* of them is able to uniformly resolve to the limits of *existing*
full frame Canon sensors. It should also be clear that, if the lens
can't do it at 12-16 MP, it ain't there in a 50 MP film scan either.
Assuming it can or should be done, resolving 22 MP from a 35mm frame
size is going to take new lenses. And let's keep in mind that 22 MP is
only a 17% increase in resolution above 16 MP.
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> AG Schnozz wrote:
>
>>Kinda sorta. We've talked about this before, but I believe that
>>the tool can enhance the work experience. This is one reason why
>>some people continue to use Leicas and are going nutsoid over
>>the M8. I don't "understand" Leica--and I generally hate
>>rangefinder cameras.
>
> Omigawd! We're blood brothers after all. Forget all the nasty things
> I've said. :-)
>
>>.........
>>Today's Digital-Wonderbricks have a grip shape that dictates how
>>the camera is to be held. It can only be held one way. Now,
>>granted, most of the time the grips are mighty fine, but yet it
>>does dictate how the camera is to be used. A brick-shaped
>>camera (like the Leica and OM and decades worth of other
>>cameras) allows the camera to be held many different ways. No
>>one position is overly comfortable (like a grip'd camera), but
>>no position is overly painful either.
>
> I guess I'm fortunate in being so unimaginative. I haven't found
> multiple ways to hold an OM and still keep my finger on the shutter
> release, so I don't know what I'm missing with a D-wunderbrick.
>
>>................
>>
>>>Make no mistake, I understand that it is hard to separate the
>>>emotional from all of this...
>>>
>>
>>Right now, my emotion says to dump the entire O-mess.
>>
>
> Thus supporting Jim's point about the way emotion gets in the way of
> sensible business decisions. When the relationship is frustrating and
> unsatisfying in some part, I get angry and just want to dump the whole
> thing.
>
>>>10mp today what will it be in two years? I am guessing it will
>>>be more.
>>>
>>
>>Possible, but yet again, the "standard" of which things are
>>compared to is a 50MP 35mm scan. 10MP is there with just a bare
>>hint of interpolation. Furthermore, if you look at the
>>Luminous-Landscape megapixel camera shootout, the lowly 5D held
>>it's own very nicely against 20+ MP medium-format cameras. It's
>>no longer about the sensor, but about the lenses.
>>
>
> I don't believe stock requirements will just keep going up. Above a
> certain point, there just aren't uses for which the extra resolution is
> needed. And the storage space required just shoots up.
>
> There was a drop in requirements for the other advantages of digital,
> and now it will go back to about where it was. 4000 dpi scans of 35 mm
> film are about 21 mp. And at 16 bit depth are about 120 mb. I don't
> think they capture as much detail as 12 mp images from the 5D, although
> part of that is the grain. The other thing I keep mentioning is that
> later pixels are sharper and resolve more detail than earlier pixels.
>
> You can make a 50mp scan of 35mm film, but do you get any more detail
> than with half that? I don't think so with films people actually use for
> stock work. I'd be surprised if the requirement for stock goes over 12
> mp, maybe 16 in a few years.
>
> Moose
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