Re: Sensor Pixel Count vs IQ we will never agree
raist3d, I like your comments on being obsessive and jumping to conclusions, or prejudging a camera based on the pixel count or sensor size alone. Really, are many of us qualified to do this, have sensors really become the measure by which a camera should be judged?
I believe we have moved past the equivalent resolution of the best film, or grain as it was known with our sensor pixel resolution, and is the Lens no considered part of the equation? This is an excellent treatise on the subject of Film vs Digital vs the Human Eye.
Film vs Digital
It was interesting to note that the latest billion dollar Mars rover, 'Curiosity'.. has a 2.0 megapixel camera.. why? Because it worked..... back in 2004 when the design was laid down, and it was not considered worth the cost to modify all the supporting hardware.
Personally I think the megapixel race and the resulting noise and noise reduction needed to compensate the pixel density for high ISO, could sometimes better be done in post production. Give me a clear image, then let me work with it.
As a side note... here are 3 images shot with my first digital camera, back in 2000. The quality out of camera from a Sony DSC-S70
3.3 megapixel sensored camera, in my hands for the first time back 12 years ago, resulted in my choice to sell all my Nikon film gear.
I still have the camera, man it is huge by comparison... so we have come a long way in hardware for sure.
Phil