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Would you buy The Canon R1 if it were 85MP

Started Aug 24, 2021 | Polls thread
Jotoco Regular Member • Posts: 233
Re: Would you buy The Canon R1 if it were 85MP
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I don't think that people realize that the camera ALWAYS takes a RAW photo. It them can process a Jpeg and discard the RAW, saving on card writing (thus increasing buffer size), but that will not ever make you shooter faster, just maybe longer.

Same for lower resolution, either the camera can read the sensor faster or it doesn't. Doesn't matter the final output resolution. Maybe the data pipeline between sensor and processor is the bottleneck, but then to overcome it you need to throw data away, that is either live skipping or cropping, or both.

There is no magic.

And also data thrown out is also light thrown out.

A photo (or video) that line skipped half the lines is effectively half the size, but a lot less sharp since it needs to make up detail from the parts it threw away.  Same for cropped, except the sharpness is same as full sensor, just cropped out of the middle.

Cropping could be beneficial and increase fps since most high fps uses also benefit from long range. That is already done in a lot of camera when you go from 30fps to 60fps to 120fps, even Sony and Nikon cameras do that.

You can have an 85mpx 15fps camera, but the only meaningful way to make it faster would be cropping, not just saving lower resolution jpegs.

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