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How many megapixels do you want in an M?

Started May 11, 2019 | Polls thread
Nigge Regular Member • Posts: 223
Re: How many megapixels do you want in an M?

noisephotographer wrote:

They should use a 40 or 48 megapixel sensor with optional pixel binning for 10 or 12 megapixel photos. It shouldn't be a Quad Bayer sensor as this could lead to demosaicing issues like Fuji's X-Trans sensor. And they need to offer a dng/CR3 file with consistent multi frame noise reduction. Of course they need to release sharp lenses.

Why 24 megapixels is not enough:

-In a few years smartphones will give you high quality photos/dng files with a (much) higher resolution than 12 megapixels.

-a high resolution is useful for tele, macro and landscape photography

-a high resolution + crop lets you use a wide angle lens as a normal lens (so it's like having more lenses), so for example the Ef-m 32mm f/1.4 could be "transformed" into a lens that is equivalent to an Ef-m 64mm f/2.8 macro lens (though it would be noisier than a real 64mm f/2.8 lens at base Iso).

That would be ideal but nobody seems to know how to make a sensor that allows binning.

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