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Archive 2014 · If Nikon made a 50+ MP camera would you buy it ?

  
 
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p.3 #1 · p.3 #1 · If Nikon made a 50+ MP camera would you buy it ?


ckcarr wrote:
54mp will most likely require a refinement both the camera after it's released, and of certain lenses too. Or new lenses that resolve better.


There are quite a few lenses available for F-mount that could take advantage of a 54MP 135-format sensor, but Nikon would have to up their game a bit for some of them, particularly with their pro zoom range from 17mm to 400mm. The 17-35/2.8G could use the update the most, while the 24-70/2.8G and 200-400/4G VR could use a kick, and the 70-200/2.8G VR II could use a different optical formula so as to eliminate the focus breathing. And hell, even the 14-24/2.8G shows it's limits on the D800E.

Of course, Nikon's telephoto primes stand out quite nicely, and that new 70-200/4G VR is dead sexy, while the 28, 35, and 85 f/1.8 primes put on a great showing alongside the 58/1.4G and 85/1.4G, and that zoom plus a pair of the f/1.8 primes would make a fine, inexpensive high-resolution kit .



Oct 20, 2014 at 03:35 PM
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p.3 #2 · p.3 #2 · If Nikon made a 50+ MP camera would you buy it ?


johnctharp wrote:
Yup; people are still shooting the 7D and have pre-ordered the 7D II simply because the high-end semi-pro crop cameras can get shots that the pro cameras (1D Xs and a few 1D IVs laying about) simply can't.



I guess.



Oct 20, 2014 at 03:50 PM
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p.3 #3 · p.3 #3 · If Nikon made a 50+ MP camera would you buy it ?


davidnholtjr wrote:
I guess.


With the 7D (think slightly modern D300 or near-pro D7100), action/wildlife shooters have found that using a crop sensor with a bare lens instead of a 1.4x on a full-frame camera (pro or otherwise) can both provide better IQ and better AF in the right circumstances.

Take that to the next level with the 7D II or hypothetical D400/D9300/whatever with the D5300's Exmor in a D810 body, keeping everything intact aside from an FPS bump to >8FPS and the D750's AF, and you have pro-grade AF acquisition and tracking at f/8 with low-light focusing ability, better than average high-ISO performance, and now you're comparing IQ between the crop body with a 1.4x and the full-frame bodies with a 2x, etc.

If the full-frame setup is within one's reach and can get the shot, it will always outperform the crop body; but if the subject requires significant cropping, the crop body will provide more 'pixels per duck', or if a teleconverter is being used the crop body will provide better AF and a better chance at actually getting the shot to begin with.



Oct 20, 2014 at 04:23 PM
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p.3 #4 · p.3 #4 · If Nikon made a 50+ MP camera would you buy it ?


If a specific shooting paradigm that consistently relied on 50+MP, then sure...why not.

This is more contingent on pricing, quality, and foremost...functionality.



Oct 20, 2014 at 05:00 PM
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