tmascolo: It is funny listening to people talk about computer horsepower, memory, and hard drive storage. I have a neighbor in her late 60s who has been a photographer her whole life, she calls the memory cards 'film' and drops her 'film' off at the lab to get prints made and a DVD. She does not 'process' her photos at home, just like she did not with film.
I would infer from this that the target market of entry level cameras do not do their own processing, they just drop off their 'film' at the store to get their prints and/or a DVD to pop into their DVD player to watch their 'slides'. They don't sit for hours on each picture staring at the pixel structure of each image to decide whether it is an 'acceptable' image, then edit it, then print it, or put it on a DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever...
I think the wording is by some bad translating. the japanese site is 「D3200」は、有効画素数約2400万画素（24.2メガピクセル）の新開発のニコンDXフォーマットCMOS
which should be translated as newly developed nikon DX format CMOS.
which is same with D7000 wording.
and the sensor image http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d3200/img/features01/img_01.png
which is more like sony IMX071 sensor than D3100's http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d3100/img/features01/img_01.png
I believe its a tweaked sony sensor.
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Posted on Apr 19, 2012 at 18:57:26 UTC
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tmascolo: It is funny listening to people talk about computer horsepower, memory, and hard drive storage. I have a neighbor in her late 60s who has been a photographer her whole life, she calls the memory cards 'film' and drops her 'film' off at the lab to get prints made and a DVD. She does not 'process' her photos at home, just like she did not with film.
I would infer from this that the target market of entry level cameras do not do their own processing, they just drop off their 'film' at the store to get their prints and/or a DVD to pop into their DVD player to watch their 'slides'. They don't sit for hours on each picture staring at the pixel structure of each image to decide whether it is an 'acceptable' image, then edit it, then print it, or put it on a DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever...
I think the wording is by some bad translating.
the japanese site is 「D3200」は、有効画素数約2400万画素（24.2メガピクセル）の新開発のニコンDXフォーマットCMOS
which should be translated as newly developed nikon DX format CMOS.
which is same with D7000 wording.
and the sensor image http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d3200/img/features01/img_01.png
which is more like sony IMX071 sensor than D3100's
http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/d3100/img/features01/img_01.png
I believe its a tweaked sony sensor.
will dpreview post an in-depth review for this?
finger crossed