What megapixel is enough for you?

7 years 11 months ago #483037 by Joe Peterson
With all the MP marketing, have you ever thought about what would be enough for you and your style of work?  Don't they have cameras that have 50 and 100MP?  Other than vanity reasons, every day photographers who aren't publishing in magazines, doesn't need something like this.  

I was thinking 24MP is the sweet spot and most reasonable MP for me.  

Where would you put yourself? 


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7 years 11 months ago #483064 by KCook
My 50D has 15Mp.  That has been more than enough.

Kelly

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7 years 11 months ago #483072 by Tyler Otis
Just to clarify, what makes more of a difference is the size of the sensor, right? Not so much the megapixels? So for someone like me that isn't printing huge images, I should be more concerned with sensor size?


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7 years 11 months ago #483085 by effron
MP is only (mostly) a factor when you're going to print your images, the higher MP the larger the print possibilities.....That being said, I printed some fairly large images using my 12 MP D700.

Why so serious?
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7 years 11 months ago #483141 by MYoung
16-24MP I would say is plenty 


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7 years 11 months ago - 7 years 11 months ago #483143 by Scotty

effron wrote: MP is only (mostly) a factor when you're going to print your images, the higher MP the larger the print possibilities.....That being said, I printed some fairly large images using my 12 MP D700.


That's all you need honestly.  I do enjoy the 36.3 from the d800 though from time to time.  I've used a hasselblad 60 mp, and phase one 80 mp cams and I grab my D3s the most.

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7 years 11 months ago #483145 by Shadowfixer1
I'm at 16 now and would like to have 24. I don't need that but it would be nice. There are advantages to having more megapixels but they definitely aren't necessary. My old 5 megapixel Minolta Dimage 7 still makes a very good image.
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7 years 11 months ago #483161 by Garbo
+1 24MP

Nikon D300: 24-70 2.8 | 70-200 2.8 VR |Sigma 150 2.8 | 50 1.4 | SB-800
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7 years 11 months ago #483220 by TGonzo
Mark me down for 24


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7 years 11 months ago #483227 by cabbot

Tyler Otis wrote: Just to clarify, what makes more of a difference is the size of the sensor, right? Not so much the megapixels? So for someone like me that isn't printing huge images, I should be more concerned with sensor size?


That's my understanding, yes.


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7 years 11 months ago #483240 by JakeHare
Okay the comment about the Hassleblad just made almost fall out of my chair... Have you seen the newest model, 007? 

Also, I'm down at 24 as well, just because of the fluidity of the image and the clarity on our devices today. Don't really need anything way above that.
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7 years 11 months ago #483271 by Brenda Dantzig

Scotty wrote:

effron wrote: MP is only (mostly) a factor when you're going to print your images, the higher MP the larger the print possibilities.....That being said, I printed some fairly large images using my 12 MP D700.


That's all you need honestly.  I do enjoy the 36.3 from the d800 though from time to time.  I've used a hasselblad 60 mp, and phase one 80 mp cams and I grab my D3s the most.


Those are some impressive cameras, what are you shooting most of the time?


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7 years 11 months ago #483278 by Hassner
I had a print blown up to A1 size from a Canon 350D with 8mp sensor. Perfect. So at 15mp I am
more than happy. 
More pixels, more externals, more ram...


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7 years 11 months ago #483405 by Overread
These days 24-36mm would keep me busy with plenty of room for growth. 


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7 years 11 months ago #483422 by KenMan
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