PureClassA said:Now maybe if Canon develops a 100MP BSI sensor exclusive to a 1DXS4 or whatever....
There's a point of diminishing returns with increasing megapixels. Already at 50mp, the 5DS does not resolve as well as an equal megapixel medium-format camera.
It will take large leaps and bounds in sensor technology to achieve the same kind of image quality in 35mm. Several generations worth of sensors.
The 5DS is the best 35mm sensor ever made for detail - but 50mp has been proved to produce far more detail and better images than the 5DS can put out. By the time 50mp on 35mm has the fullest quality 50mp can give, MF will use the same tech advances to jump ahead even further.
Upping the mp to these densities does help....but less and less.
100mp is probably no benefit in 35mm until tech leaps are made.
Going from a 22 or 24mp to a D810 then a 5DS you see jumps in detail for sure. The return in IQ on megapixels spent isn't where it ought to be.
Already the 5DS uses a shock absorbing shutter mechanism and a reinforced body to increase stability to try and get the most out of the resolution. MF shooters don't even use tripods, they mount their cameras in studio. Otherwise, camera vibration negates all that money spent to be able to resolve the finest details possible.
Yes, it is always said even in the past that a limit was reached in practicality. People said who needs more than 12mp? But it wasn't. Today though, it is getting closer. The same way 8K TV will be a sort of limit for a long time. When you get to the point that more pixels does not translate to visually noticeable detail, you've reached a limit. Human vision has a limit.
For any kind of non-mounted shooting, 36mp is about the max practical. What tech in the future can mitigate that? Sensor image stabilization can help. But there's nothing better than being stationary.
So yes, there is a visually confirmable practical limit to MP in photography that has likely been reached in 35mm.
Advancements going forward are better concentrated on more DR, better ISO performance, better color etcetera...rather than upping the MP. Again, to make any use of MP count that high - the camera has to be mounted. Otherwise, motion is blurring those super-fine details those extra megapixels are trying to resolve.
Output is another factor. 8K is around 33MP? People have put their face up against 8K screens at shows and could not make out pixels. Output like that will be able to show 1:1 full screen images coming from every DSLR out there except for 3 of them.
I digress a bit. The point is, in 35mm such extreme megapixel counts as well as the fact that 35mm is a DSLR, not a mounted studio camera all the time, means that it is pointless to go beyond 50mp for a long, long time.
But hey, marketing means specs have to continually be high.
More megapixels. More ISO. Look at the absurd Nikon marketing with their new cameras... 1M and 3M ISO? Give us a break.
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