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36MP APS-C sensor any time soon?


5 years 3 months ago #627004 by Jason Stevens
My Nikon D810 manufactured some 5 years ago has a 36.3 MP sensor.  Granted it's full frame. Samsung has their 28MP thing going on and Sony I thought was doing something north of 40MP in cell phones.  I think having a 36MP APS-C sensor would give a much more dense and larger mid section of an image. Which is a plus because most lenses tend to be sharpest in this area.  

Seems like APS-C cameras have been stuck around 24MP for some time.  

So, when will we see something greater?
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5 years 3 months ago #627018 by Nikon Shooter

Jason Stevens wrote: … when will we see something greater?


I'm not sure this would be of some advantage given
the well known issues of smaller size cells and higher
pixel density.
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 3 months ago #627021 by GaryA
There is a lot to say about large pixels and low light.
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5 years 3 months ago #627025 by garyrhook
Let's us math.

The D850, a 47MP sensor, has a DX area of just less than 20MP. You want 36MP, so that's 1.8 times the density of that sensor. That means you need a full frame equivalent of over 86MP.

It'll be a while, if ever.

If you need that level of detail, you buy the bigger better body.
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5 years 3 months ago #627034 by Nikon Shooter

GaryA wrote: There is a lot to say about large pixels and low light.


Correct… even considering the later progress in dynamic range!
Light is free… capturing it is not!
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5 years 3 months ago #627041 by Head
Such a sensor would probably only be functional at ƒ2.8-ƒ4. When you use a bridge camera, diffraction sets in pretty quickly and you get a "watercolour" type lack of resolution. The issue being the wavelength of reds and possibly even up into yellows and greens, would be wider band width than a pixel. When that happens you get significant cross talk and colour bleeding. It's just not a probable technical solution. As others have mentioned, you reduce those issues with bigger pixels One of those 1:1.2 bridge cameras at ƒ5.6. You'll see what I mean. The smaller the pixels, the wider the aperture has to be to prevent going past the diffraction limit.. Such a camera would probably be functional only for those using ƒ1.4-ƒ4 glass and be would be diffraction limited in the sharpest part of the lens.
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5 years 3 months ago #627065 by Jason Stevens

garyrhook wrote: Let's us math.

The D850, a 47MP sensor, has a DX area of just less than 20MP. You want 36MP, so that's 1.8 times the density of that sensor. That means you need a full frame equivalent of over 86MP.

It'll be a while, if ever.

If you need that level of detail, you buy the bigger better body.



Yes!  86MP would be awesome.  LOL

This was just a general question, one that I didn't understand why these sensors seemed stuck at 24MP.  Wonder if we would see something greater.   
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5 years 3 months ago #627271 by Ruby Grace
Not needed, can you imaging the hard drive space that would take up? 
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