You won't. Take two identical shots, print them both to the size you normally print, look at them. You won't notice the difference between 16m or 24m pixels.

I saw a 20x16in print at my camera club the other day. It was a close up detail of a guardsman and it had plenty of detail. It was taken with a camera than only had 4m pixels.

Unfortunately, we can't compare prints on the Internet. We can compare images displayed on screen though. And we can compare resolution numbers. In these regards, did you see the response I posted to you in a recent thread about strongly related matters? See here:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/post/50940596

You did post that in a reply to me so I already read it. Lots of charts and theory but no photographs unless I missed them. I don't care for numbers, I only care for IQ.

The numbers are there because they are a convenient way of summarizing what images tell you. So it's a mistake to see numbers and IQ as alternatives. Rather, the numbers is one of several ways to tell you about IQ.

But there were photographs particularly well suited to judging resolution in one of the two links I gave you. Those photographs show the D800 to be far ahead of the D700 as far as resolution is concerned.

And I still prefer my D700. I did have a chance to try out my friends D800, until he sold it last week. A very nice camera, but I don't need or want 36mm pixels.

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