The Canon EOS R3 will be 24mp, confirmed by EXIF data

dtaylor

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Thanks for putting this into general context. To sum up, if your interest is knowing the number of data points or colloquially how many pixels you have on a duck, then what matters is the number of pixels in your sensor and also the focal length of your lens squared. But, if you are interested in the information content of those data points, or in practical terms whether you can resolve the individual feathers of the duck, then that scales with the square root of the number of pixels or the focal length of the lens.
Feathers of a duck are 3D objects projected onto a 2D space in a camera. How well they can be resolved relates to how many data points are captured in two dimensions. It's easier to use just one dimension when computing focal lengths and print sizes. But it's not more valid to do so. In fact, it would be less valid under certain circumstances. This would be unavoidably apparent if any cameras had a pixel shape or CFA arrangement which resulted in more detail along one dimension than along the other.
 
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Antiques are second hand, and in the UK antiques' dealers have a special scheme of adding VAT to the difference between their buying and selling price. On buying from antiques auctions, you pay VAT on the commission you pay to the auction house, but not the item. If you have a personal item that you sell later at a profit, then you should pay capital gains tax on the profit if you exceed your tax limit. Doesn't affect me as everything I buy plummets in price. What a thread this is: free advice on your tax affairs as well as how to assess resolution. I think there is some mention of an R3.
That's why it's called a "value added tax" rather than a "sales tax", no? It's actually a very different concept.

As I understand it, if I am a widget manufacturer, I buy raw materials (the prices of which will include VAT), work on them and perhaps sell for double the price of the raw materials. I must add in tax on my increase in the value of the materials in turning them into widgets. Or alternatively, I include and charge VAT on the full price but get to deduct the VAT I paid for the raw materials. Either way, it must be a bookkeeping nightmare, but at least in principle it's impossible to evade the tax by pretending to be "wholesale." A US sales tax doesn't get applied until a retail sale.
 
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No it costs £4300. We don’t use us$. You can’t just convert our prices to $ either. Ours includes sales tax at 20%, theirs don’t. That’s £3583 without tax. At today’s rate that’s $4970.
20%...OUCH!!

And I've been compiling about 10% sales tax down here in the New Orleans area.

Ok, I"m still complaining about it, but am glad I don't have 20%!!!
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In my state, you have a choice. You can send the state your unpaid sales taxes on internet purchases when you pay your income taxes, or you can pay an estimate that the state calculates for you based on your income. If you pay the estimate, you do not have to document anything and they guarantee that you will not be audited or prosecuted for underpayment of sales taxes. I always pay the estimate at tax time, so I guess I'm not "normal."
OUCH!!

WTF state is this that assumes you buy things online?

If you didn't buy online from places that didn't collect sales tax, how do you prove a negative?
 
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I am a big believer in buying what makes you feel creative. Some folks like film, some like Leicas. If it gets you out to shoot and you enjoy it then it is money well spent. I am working on a documentary of a place I own for my YouTube channel. I have 100 subs and who knows maybe in 10 years I may have 1000. If one of them enjoys the documentary and I enjoy making it then I have succeeded. That being said I have some paid work which is another kettle of fish. I need something there that works and I am familiar with.
Nothing like a new shinny toy for bring in a flood of motivation.
 
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WTF state is this that assumes you buy things online?

If you didn't buy online from places that didn't collect sales tax, how do you prove a negative?
Super easy.

No one pays cash online. You pay with a card or through a third party like Pay Pal. Therefore, there is a record of all your online purchases and it's easy to see which ones collected sales taxes and which ones didn't.
 
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Certainly not fooled that this is supposed to compete with the Sony you think it should, even at 30mp.
Oh dear! One thing at a time CanonFanBoy. Firstly you were going to do something useful and illuminate this group on what the R1 'is', (you seem strangely quiet). Secondly you were no doubt going to debate your earlier 'pretend' vs 'pose' point but I guess you concede that one (good move). Now you seem to be making the same mistake again and when I said 'hoped' have now (incorrectly) used your word 'supposed' (to compete with the Sony camera). We can all 'hope'. Certainly I 'hope' you'll buy a dictionary dear boy.
 
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Oh dear! One thing at a time CanonFanBoy. Firstly you were going to do something useful and illuminate this group on what the R1 'is', (you seem strangely quiet). Secondly you were no doubt going to debate your earlier 'pretend' vs 'pose' point but I guess you concede that one (good move). Now you seem to be making the same mistake again and when I said 'hoped' have now (incorrectly) used your word 'supposed' (to compete with the Sony camera). We can all 'hope'. Certainly I 'hope' you'll buy a dictionary dear boy.
Wow, simply...wow. You really come off as a pompous twat here Meg. Does it have to be so judgmental and disdainful? I guess the internet allows it so you go whole hog, right? Sure I name called and you could see that as hypocrisy but I had to call out your post as being pretty petty. CFB has a reputation for being civil and fair, you not so much.
 
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Surely secondhand goods are exempt from VAT?

PS some types of retailer list goods without VAT, it's pretty common for wine merchants as VAT may not be applied if you're buying for storage rather than delivery.
Company to company sales are vat exempt if they’re both vat registered. Sort of. As someone said in different way.
 
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Wow, simply...wow. You really come off as a pompous twat here Meg. Does it have to be so judgmental and disdainful? I guess the internet allows it so you go whole hog, right? Sure I name called and you could see that as hypocrisy but I had to call out your post as being pretty petty. CFB has a reputation for being civil and fair, you not so much.
Civil and fair, are you sure? I'm not the one using (any) rude words like "fool" and "pompous twat".
 
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The dimensionality is literally, physically 2. The traditional test is 1 for convenience, not because the sensor is a single line like in a flatbed scanner. Note that the traditional lp/mm test is performed twice in two different orientations any time anyone really wants to be accurate about the resolving power of an optical system. Which gets to the heart of what I'm trying to communicate.
I have already posted that resolution is measured twice in different orientations, which can show astigmatism.
That answer may be simple, but it is simply wrong. Resolution is a linear measure, pixels per inch etc. See also for printing: printer resolution is given in dots per inch or metric equivalent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_per_inch If you think you are correct, please define what "total resolution" is and where it is used technically. As you probably know, resolution can be different in different directions - astigmatism - and resolution in MTF charts is given in sagital and meridonial lines at right angles to each other.
 
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20%...OUCH!!

And I've been compiling about 10% sales tax down here in the New Orleans area.

Ok, I"m still complaining about it, but am glad I don't have 20%!!!
:O

C
Yup. Country wide. We do get free health care too. It kind of valences out. The least I remember it being is 15%, mostly 17.5%. Currently 20% since the financial crisis.
 
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Feathers of a duck are 3D objects projected onto a 2D space in a camera. How well they can be resolved relates to how many data points are captured in two dimensions. It's easier to use just one dimension when computing focal lengths and print sizes. But it's not more valid to do so. In fact, it would be less valid under certain circumstances. This would be unavoidably apparent if any cameras had a pixel shape or CFA arrangement which resulted in more detail along one dimension than along the other.
The resolution of 3-dimensional objects is central to my field of work, the structure of proteins determined by X-ray crystallography and cryoem. It is a linear 1-D measurement; nanometres, nm (or Å) - see https://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Resolution

As I referred you to earlier, "(optical) Resolution depends on the distance between two distinguishable radiating points." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_resolution For X-ray crystallography of 3D objects, resolution is the smallest distance between crystal lattice planes that is resolved. In cryo-electron microscopy, the data are collected on a sensor just like in photography. The attainable resolution similarly depends on the pixel size. Just as in photography, the Nyquist theorem specifies that the theoretically attainable resolution is limited to twice the pixel size. What determines the size of a pixel is the square root of the number of pixels - double the number of pixels and the attainable resolution from the Nyquist theorem increases by 1.4x, not 2x.

PS, when it comes to the effect of number of data points on increased precision, that also scales as the square root of the number of points: double the number of points, precision is improved by 1.4x, not 2x.
 
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You do know Sony release a 12mp camera just last year and it is the interest darling. There is a reason for 20mp class cameras. They fill a need. The R5 at 45mp also exists.
yeah they made a 12mp camera that most if not all consumers bought mostly for video. If that is the case the c70 is an 8MP camera.
 
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Oh dear! One thing at a time CanonFanBoy. Firstly you were going to do something useful and illuminate this group on what the R1 'is', (you seem strangely quiet). Secondly you were no doubt going to debate your earlier 'pretend' vs 'pose' point but I guess you concede that one (good move). Now you seem to be making the same mistake again and when I said 'hoped' have now (incorrectly) used your word 'supposed' (to compete with the Sony camera). We can all 'hope'. Certainly I 'hope' you'll buy a dictionary dear boy.
Actually, you wanted me to illuminate. As dominant as you may be, I don't obey your riding crop.

There was no debate regarding pose vs pretend. Same thing.

Yup, you hoped the R3 would compete with the Sony. Really, you didn't. That's just your troll talking point.
 
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OUCH!!

WTF state is this that assumes you buy things online?

If you didn't buy online from places that didn't collect sales tax, how do you prove a negative?
The key is that these few tax-hungry states require you to file an annual report and sign under oath and with criminal penalties for lying, swaeaiung as to your actual unpaid sales taxes, or paying them their required minimum. Most states with a few notable exceptions don't do anything, including go after individuals (or it would be big news).
 
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Actually, you wanted me to illuminate. As dominant as you may be, I don't obey your riding crop.

There was no debate regarding pose vs pretend. Same thing.

Yup, you hoped the R3 would compete with the Sony. Really, you didn't. That's just your troll talking point.
Shall we do this line by line?

You stated originally very boldly "That's the coming R1", which it may well be, but we don't know that, I certainly don't. Yes, I set a challenge, which was to back up your bold assertion with some facts. You haven't. Can you? Or are you the one pretending to know more?

Here you state pose vs pretend. Same thing. Erm, not so fast, you are changing words again to suit your (changing) argument. You originally stated pretender and poser. These are very clearly NOT the same thing. If you are a pretender you are entering in an imaginative game or fantasy, while a poser would be behaving affectedly in order to impress others.

Lastly you claim I hope the R3 would compete with the Sony, but "oh no, wait a minute" I didn't really. Erm, news flash I kinda was hoping the R3 would be more competitive (in the megapixel count, with the Sony). Just playing in straight.

So let's just refresh ourselves of my post (MY VERY FIRST POST ON THIS SITE BTW) which caused you to use words such as "pretender", "poser" and latterly "troll".

As a wildlife photographer who's been using 1 Series for several years, and just getting the R5 and discovering what 45mp can do, I really don't see a wildlife need for effectively an R6 in a pro body. Canon used to do 2 flavours of 1 series, low res for sports and hi-res for fashion/wildlife etc. I guess I was sort of hoping with the Sony A1 doing 'everything', Canon was going to try and compete.

It's hardly an offensive first post is it? Or is it?
 
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Shall we do this line by line?

You stated originally very boldly "That's the coming R1", which it may well be, but we don't know that, I certainly don't. Yes, I set a challenge, which was to back up your bold assertion with some facts. You haven't. Can you? Or are you the one pretending to know more?

Here you state pose vs pretend. Same thing. Erm, not so fast, you are changing words again to suit your (changing) argument. You originally stated pretender and poser. These are very clearly NOT the same thing. If you are a pretender you are entering in an imaginative game or fantasy, while a poser would be behaving affectedly in order to impress others.

Lastly you claim I hope the R3 would compete with the Sony, but "oh no, wait a minute" I didn't really. Erm, news flash I kinda was hoping the R3 would be more competitive (in the megapixel count, with the Sony). Just playing in straight.

So let's just refresh ourselves of my post (MY VERY FIRST POST ON THIS SITE BTW) which caused you to use words such as "pretender", "poser" and latterly "troll".

As a wildlife photographer who's been using 1 Series for several years, and just getting the R5 and discovering what 45mp can do, I really don't see a wildlife need for effectively an R6 in a pro body. Canon used to do 2 flavours of 1 series, low res for sports and hi-res for fashion/wildlife etc. I guess I was sort of hoping with the Sony A1 doing 'everything', Canon was going to try and compete.

It's hardly an offensive first post is it? Or is it?
Not offensive at all. Never said so.

However, you already knew it wouldn't. Thus, pretender/poser/troll, or maybe just glib.

As this is the R3, we already know this isn't another flavor of the R1... which is yet to be released. Certainly, it isn't a 1 series..
 
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