On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 11:08:30AM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Dec 22, 2005, at 10:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Yes, 9mp would be a significant improvement over 6mp. > >And if the price is right, 6mp bodies prices will have to > >drop like bricks. And quickly. > > Significant is a matter of opinion. Remember that 6 vs 8 Mpixels is > an area measurement, not a linear measurement. > > 9 Mpixel means 106% linear resolution improvement compared to 6 > Mpixel.
Where does that figure come from? I make 9MP vs 6MP a 50% area improvement, or 22.5% linear. Not earth-shattering, perhaps, but a significant advance. Perhaps you compared 9MP to 8MP, which is about a 6% gain.
