36 MP D800/D800E/D810. Nikon released a high res camera well before Sony. 45 MP D850/Z7. Again, better sensor than in Sony products of the time. So Sony puts out a newer sensor in a couple of their bodies. So what.
I don't think the D850 is a do it all Camera....it is not optimized for :
Not sure what you meant by that title. But, per pixel DR is not what determines photo DR. When you add more pixels, you can accept a drop in per pixel DR and still keep overall photo DR the same because of the noise benefit of having more pixels. We've known that for a long time.
Agree.
If that were true shouldn't Canon have gone out of business long ago?
Nikon still has a lot going for them, esp right out of the gate. I agree on AF, and if they can catch up in that area soon I don't think sourcing sensors from Sony will mater much if at all.
Interesting that the A73 has far more AF points than the z6 (and even the A7r3), but the z7 has more than the A7r3. The resolution isn't an exact match either between each equivalent body. It looks as if Nikon has some customization going on on top of the base Sony sensor architecture, or they're not using the exact same sensor model.
The appeal is there, but Nikon is just getting started, not even a year into it.
Most of this is due to marketing. A 61Mp "flagship" sends a message to the ill informed that Sony are the market leader, whether people actually need 61Mp is a moot point. Most will generally not need 61Mp, heck 16:9 8k screens will only require 33Mp, but for some applications 61Mp for cropping bird photos may be of benefit. As Thom Hogan points out, pixel shift etc will be a better tool for many landscapers if they want billboard sized prints. As some have pointed out, ease of use, ergonomics, AF ability etc, etc will become more important.
Apple buys their screens, arguably the most important component of a smartphone, from Samsung, their biggest competitor. Has been this way forever.
My experiences with the different bodies (d500, d750, d800e and d850) tells me otherwise...If you really think that is true then why is it that The Phase One Sensor is rated accordingly? Larger Pixels and higher resolution.... I believe that you might be inferring to the fact that certain bodies Enhance Dynamic Range by playing some tricks with internal Software enhancement, which is probably why Sony calls their A7RIV Dynamic range as - Enhance Dynamic Range of 15 Stops!. You can Enhance Dynamic range of almost all Digital images by stacking multiple shots like in Astrophotography. I believe that to gain the best Dynamic range of a sensor is to have the best technical advantage in the pixel level - which currently is in the BSI CMOS sensors Larger pixels but that needs to be balanced with the right resolution so as to get the best viewing size of the final image... I would be surprised if NASA would replace their current D5s (20 Mpx.) in the ISS with the A7RIV in the future... I would venture to say that a stacked image from a D5 would have a lot more Dynamic Range than the stacked image from an A7RIV (60 Mpx)..
+1
And it's driving Apple nuts to do so. They are investing hundreds of millions in alternatives so they don't have to do that in the long run.
The P1 150 MP sensor has exactly the same pixel pitch as the a7RIV, just more pixels.
No, larger sebsir
True, comparing individual pixels. But the physics is that as a whole same size sensors collects the same amount of light regardless of their resolution. This is true as long as there are no losses due to the larger pixel density of a higher resolution sensor. This is pretty much the case for gapless microlens/BSI technologies .
I believe the difference in the technology used in "older" vs Newer sensors are different. which could account for most if not all the difference in the dynamic range...see below:
I wonder if that is still relevant . Due to much better IQ the difference is maybe there but not noticeable any more for the majority of use cases
