Canon Confirms Development of High Megapixel Camera

[vscd]

This is why so many pros (and avid enthusiasts like myself) have $30,000 - 50,000 kits. They are exceptionally skilled, and can maximize the potential of that gear.

And Sebastião Salgado or Steve Mc Curry can make a picture better than those, with a used 200$ Canon/Nikon and a bunch of TriX Rolls and a bottle of D76.

Of course, good gear takes the pro a few steps further... but it always comes with tradeoffs or high cost. The RAW Files of my DP3M or a Nikon D810 from a friend are already to large for the daily postprocessing. Or let me say, I would not use the full resolution everytime. But, the drawbacks, like lower ISO (more noise) will be there everytime I use the cam.

If the rumours are true I will like the way Canon thinks about the 5D line... just different sensortypes like the A7, A7R or A7S. So everyone can choose the camera, which fit's his needs best... great times ahead, I think.

For me, the sweet spot is something around 16MP/18MP on fullframe (like the D3s or 1DX), but that's just my opinion.

Btw. the interesting proof for a correlation between ISO and dynamic range is the new A7 II from Sony. Given the same sensor as the A7 had, the DR got lower while the ISO rised up So, while Canon has better High-ISO capabilties... the DR is lacking. It's a commitment to High ISO, I think. The rest is physics. Giving up the pace on ISO would help Canon to come to the same DR as Sony does, but they don't seem to want this way.

http://www.dxomark.com/Reviews/Sony-A7II-sensor-review-Mighty-mirrorless/Sony-A7II-sensor-measurement-Same-sensor-similar-scores

 

[privatebydesign]

And Sebastião Salgado or Steve Mc Curry can make a picture better than those, with a used 200$ Canon/Nikon and a bunch of TriX Rolls and a bottle of D76.

Not of subjects that many shoot they couldn't.

They are good at their chosen subjects, but those chosen subjects are not gear intensive type shooting scenarios, besides, Salgado is post processing driven and McCurry has been mediocre and formulaic for many years.

There is no right answer for so many of these questions.

 

[martti]

"Better pictures" is a highly subjective thing which can be expressed also as "pictures that I like better".
The technical quality is another matter, much more exact. With the high-tech equipment available today we can get technically excellent pictures in situation where it was impossible in the heydays of Tri-X and D76 and Magnum.

Some photographers take excellent pictures with iPhone, others with view cameras.
There are so many right answers if you know how to ask your questions.

 

[vscd]

Some photographers take excellent pictures with iPhone, others with view cameras.
There are so many right answers if you know how to ask your questions.

Yepp, that's what I wanted to express... hunting for new technologies can be the answer. But what was the question? Remember, even if Canon makes a really nice new Sensor with >50MP, the next medium format would have answered the question 4-5 years before