On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, Boris Liberman wrote: > As an aside observation - current prosumer grade DZLR seems to be like > 8 mp. I know that pixel count is not the Holy Grail itself, but it > does matter. So if for some reason I were to shoot most of my stuff at > nominal sensitivity, then my theoretically just acquired Canon Rebel D > would already lose to latest offerings from Sony, Canon themselves, or > Nikon.
Pixel count is about the last thing that I look at these days. To give an example, I would rather have had a 3mp Canon D30 than my 5mp Sony DSC-F7x7 cameras. The 5mp Sony produces nice prints, but the noise is always there and always needs to be considered. The lower resolution D30 had a lot less noise and made nicer large prints, even though there was less detail. A lot of the 8mp Prosumer cameras have a great feature set, but I'd be _more_ likely to buy them if they were 3 or 5mp cameras and had larger pixels. > There is a potential problem with gadgetry. It is one of "killer > application" or "killer feature". It can be that the next generation > of sensors or whatever tech there'd be then would cause many Friday FS > e-mails on this list... Or in other words, until buying a DSLR is not > going to be a good exercise in math... There are going to have to be two sets of killer features before I feel like it is time to ditch the *ist D. It is always going to be a nice backup body. I didn't buy my *ist D expecting to save money though, I bought it because I prefer to shoot digitally. The bodys are already selling for about $400-$500 less than I paid and I haven't shot $400-$500 worth of images with it (I've hardly shot any actually, it has been a very busy fall and winter, and I do most of my shooting in the spring and summer). alex
