Going much higher would still be worthwhile. I can see in some of my 6MP APS images with my best lenses that the image is still at full contrast even in the finest details and the image is suffering from pixelation problems due to low res (6Mp on APS is nowhere even close to enough for the best lenses, even with older good FF lenses ) . I think that 24 Mp would still be useful on APS and 50Mp would still be useful on FF. Of course only the very finest lenses would need this but if you have them, these res numbers would be useful. jco
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Roberts Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:05 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: Pentax K 28mm f2.0 Lens William Robb wrote: >From: "Adam Maas" >> >> I doubt we'll see more than ~12MP or a different crop factor. 1.5x is a >> workable crop factor and going larger gives potential problems with >> SR >> and DA lens image circle. You could either go larger or go SR, we got SR. >> >> I'm expecting 12.4MP CMOS from Sony (D2x sensor) or the 4 channel >> 10MP >> Sony sensor from the D200. I don't expect to see a non-Sony sensor in a >> flagship release and both of these sensors are proven designs. > >Pity, I don't think that's enough head to interest me. Not enough to interest most people; going from 10 MP to 12 is pointless. That's why you won't see an upgrade with less than 14-15 megapixels. Pentax wisely skipped the 8MP "in-between" cameras and will do the same kind of thing again. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
