Being a high resolution senor enjoyer myself, im wondering where the future might take us.
Will the pixel counts of modern sensors just increase generation to generation forever?
I believe they wont. When i started to photograph, many people were longing for more megapixels, but nowadays the calls for more megapixels got quiter and most people
seem to be content with whats available on the market.
Some people do still want more megapixels tho. And here im asking, how far will it go?
Of course there must be some limits to megapixelcount i imagine. Here some, that i can think of:
* Too limiting for shutterspeeds - Shots of moving subjects will need too fast of a shutter speed to be practial
* Limited by diffraction. Some lenses, like f6.3, will become limited by diffraction very soon, at like 76 megapixels.
* Limited by practicability - who needs it? at what point will there be no more market, because noone prints that big?
* Limited by lenses - is there some point, where it becomes too expensive to design lenses to resolve those high megapixel sensors (even right now most lenses dont resolve the full potential of today 45 - 61 megapixel sensors)?
* Too limited by iso, at some point you will only see all megapixels by iso 100 and anything above will result in not getting the full benefit of the pixel count
Perhaps you can think of more reasons.
What do u think? What will be the most limiting factors and where do you think we will end up, pixel count wise, in the forseeable future?
Will the pixel counts of modern sensors just increase generation to generation forever?
I believe they wont. When i started to photograph, many people were longing for more megapixels, but nowadays the calls for more megapixels got quiter and most people
seem to be content with whats available on the market.
Some people do still want more megapixels tho. And here im asking, how far will it go?
Of course there must be some limits to megapixelcount i imagine. Here some, that i can think of:
* Too limiting for shutterspeeds - Shots of moving subjects will need too fast of a shutter speed to be practial
* Limited by diffraction. Some lenses, like f6.3, will become limited by diffraction very soon, at like 76 megapixels.
* Limited by practicability - who needs it? at what point will there be no more market, because noone prints that big?
* Limited by lenses - is there some point, where it becomes too expensive to design lenses to resolve those high megapixel sensors (even right now most lenses dont resolve the full potential of today 45 - 61 megapixel sensors)?
* Too limited by iso, at some point you will only see all megapixels by iso 100 and anything above will result in not getting the full benefit of the pixel count
Perhaps you can think of more reasons.
What do u think? What will be the most limiting factors and where do you think we will end up, pixel count wise, in the forseeable future?