How much more useful are ever higher pixel densities?

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sshoihet
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Re: How much more useful are ever higher resolving lenses?
In reply to Stacey_K, 3 months ago

Stacey_K wrote:

sshoihet wrote:

If you haven't seen it already, have a look at this comparison. Even though the Canon lens is sharper, the combination of the Nikon lens and D800 body out resolves it.

http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2013/01/a-24-70mm-system-comparison

The -e- version does, it has no aa filter. The e version also out resolves the regular version. This review is likely more influenced by that..

I'd rather see the results from the plain D800 and the canon.

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Stacey

The point though is that the higher resolution body is able to achieve superior resolution results with a lesser quality lens.  The image quality of a lens is not absolute, what body you pair it up with is significant; look at the Tamron on both bodies.

Common wisdom says to buy better glass instead of a better, higher resolution body but this shows that might not always be the best case of action.

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