Goodby imaginary D400?

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jfriend00
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Re: Goodby imaginary D400?
In reply to Kerry Pierce, 6 months ago

Kerry Pierce wrote:

jonrobertp wrote:

Sure...but because we know cross sensors are better than the rest. And, because Nikon has them all bunched in the middle.

Ever look at the cross sensor array in a 7D ? It's different .

Like you, I'd welcome an AF module that had all cross sensors, or at least more of them, out in the outer regions. I don't understand why that wouldn't be useful to pros or anyone that actually uses the outer AF points.

But, Nikon has not offered any camera with an AF module like that. I don't expect them to change that anytime soon either. Indeed, you are one of the few people that I've even see mention the desire for more cross points.

Seems like a lot of folks don't really care about how well the stuff works, so long as they have a sensor with lots of MPs. That's all that they want. It doesn't seem to matter if the noise performance and FPS goes back to the d70 days or worse.

I wonder if there's a technical reason that Nikon's cross sensors only work near the center?  It does seem odd that even in their most expensive cameras, they never had cross sensors outside the middle formation when we all know that the cross sensors clearly work better on many types of subjects.

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