Nielk Mike wrote: gyoung143 wrote:
The list is just as problematic as Nikon's was when they tried the same nonsense when the D800 was announces an age ago, it was even suggested that a tripod was necessary to get the benefits of the higher res. Driven it seemed largely to encourage trade ins to newer lenses. Nobody produced a lens list suitable for Pan F when it was announced as it would resolve more than FP4. Lens performance doesn't get suddenly worse with higher resolurion, but it will allow higher resolution lenses to show. Nonsense to suggest that the 35 1.4 will look worse on 40mpx than it did on 26, unless you magnify more. And if you are realistic about the capabilities of your lenses a look with the magnifying glass should never give surprises.
I can assure you my 14mm for instance does just as well on tge Xt5 asit does on Xpro2 and Xt3.
Gerry
Nikon was right: The higher the resolution, the more one needs to avoid camera movement. One way is to use a tripod, another way is to increase the shutter speed ratio from 1/Focal Length to 2 or 3/Focal Length.
"Unless you magnify more". Very important. Exactly. But you can bet your whatever that most new users of the 40MP sensor went for it :-) And being somewhat disappointed by what they saw. I was with my first 60MP sensor - though I should have known better :-( Nikon and Fuji management were just afraid to lose customers because of that. And of course, selling some new lenses also comes in handy. But I absolutely agree with you that all my lenses perform the same on my cameras "if" I view them at normal size and from a normal viewing distance. Then again, having a 40MP sensor begs for significant cropping (road side size prints are not my thing :-) ) So off you go and do some cropping (2x, 3x) - and the difference between the older lenses and the newer ones start to show. So, yes, I understand why the companies (much to the annoyance of those in the know) published those lists.
Yes, one of the main reasons I justified to myself the purchase of the Xt5 was the cropping possibilities. In particular with the 90mm for sports in low light and also with a 100-400 for wildlife. I'm getting old for lugging around heavy lenses like the 150-600 or a 70-200 2.8 for the relatively few occasions I want them, and for my own amusement rather than client approval. Both OIS and the IBIS of the Xt5 are a help in situations where a tripod is not really workable. Good high iso noise performance can be used too compared to D800 days so higher shutter speeds can be used.
A normal, uncropped image filling an HD monitor of an A3 print is not going to show any difference between 26 and 40mpx, evenb16mpx of my old Nikon looks just as good as long as its base iso.
We are getting a long way away from the original thread content, apologies to thr OP.
Gerry
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Mar 25, 2026 at 08:58 AM
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