24 MP from an entry level DSLR

Sovern wrote:

Personally I think that your method is complicated and undermines the point that he and me both made....MP's are not based on a linearity scale.

More Megapixels does not allow you to crop much better and you risk making your photos look like they were taken with a point and shoot cropping to such a degree as shown earlier with the photo examples posted.

I can upscale my 12.2MP photos to 24MP's if need be. Crop ability is not solely dependent on megapixels or else there would be $100 point and shoots that perform better than full frame cameras with L lenses.

It's much more complicated as you have to factor in the sensor capability's sensor size, lens and the resolution it can acquire, the minute CA, sharpness lost, color inaccuracy's and other things that come up when you push your crops past the point of what your lens and sensor are capable of resolving as shown with the past crops posted on here.

You wind up posting crops that show softness in the detail (IE the ground and the subject itself) a long with color inaccuracy's and micro CA a long with blur because megapixels a lone won;t fix this problem. The problem is that the sensor isn;t capable of resolving such minute detail and the lens isn;t capable of resolving that much resolution to keep everything crisp that cropped in, you're also pushing the limitations of the sensor processor.