Uncle Rog looks into the high resolution future

[ahsanford]

(wasn't sure what forum to tuck this in)

Roger Cicala, on absurdly demanding optical testing and how today's glass might fare on 150 MP bodies someday:

https://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2017/07/experiments-for-ultra-high-resolution-camera-sensors/

"First, let me emphasize again that if we had a 150-megapixel camera and shot today’s lenses on it, the images would have more detail than that same lens on your current 36-megapixel camera. How much more? It’s hard to say. But remember you have to roughly quadruple megapixels to double resolution. If you’re shooting a 36-megapixel camera, then a 150-megapixel camera would about double your potential resolution. You’d notice the difference, especially if you crop the hell out of an image or print billboards or something.

This test is looking at it from the other perspective; If you had this camera and wanted to see the finest detail possible, which lens would let you do that? Well, it’s borderline, but there are at least a few that seem reasonable choices. None of them do it at f/1.4 or even f/2, and none do it in the corners, but there are some that do it."

As always from Roger, a good read. Give it a look?

- A

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

It's hard for me to comprehend using a 200 mp camera body, merely because even the tiniest vibration will smear a image and reduce resolution down to 50 mp.

I'd think that image stabilization may be even more critical than lens resolution , even for tripod mounted cameras. Those 200 MP cameras will be coming, maybe sooner than we think.

I can recall when there was a big discussion as sensors with more than 3 or 4 MP arrived, lenses could never resolve 10 mp, blah blah.

 

[Orangutan]

It's hard for me to comprehend using a 200 mp camera body, merely because even the tiniest vibration will smear a image and reduce resolution down to 50 mp.

I'd think that image stabilization may be even more critical than lens resolution

Yeah, we'll need both first-rate lens-based stabilization AND IBIS. In 10 years, that may just be the standard.

 

[Jopa]

Great article as usually from LensRentals. Mr. Cicala forgot to insert a 35/1.4II chart though... And it seems like the 11-24 has passed his high res test!