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How many megapixels do you need?
- Thread starter rayyan
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rayyan
Well-known member
Thanks Doug.
Let me go and search for it. I think I was looking at the D 850 and came across this.
Best.
Let me go and search for it. I think I was looking at the D 850 and came across this.
Best.
Jorgen Udvang
Subscriber Member
I can't get the lonk to work either, but I saw some excellent portraits taken with a D2Hs the other day. Lack of resolution was not a problem that sprung to my mind. I'll be re-visiting my Fuji S3 during my Songkran Holiday in April, and will also take the Panasonic L1 for a swing. I've been printing some photos to use as gifts lately, including some taken with those cameras, and it has encouraged me to think more about photography and less about gear and megapixels.
Knorp
Well-known member
Here's the lonk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8aQqJYI8xA
Frankly
New member
I often go back and edit older files. Depending on the textures and lighting some older files hold up quite well. Mostly it requires that they were shot using the low, base ISO.
And certain combinations, like portraits with the Nikon D80 or D200 (CCD) with the 50/1.4D wide open, have a unique look that I like, especially at ISO 100.
But most of the time they suck compared to contemporary cameras. I regret all of the marginal shots I tried with the older gear. Even when it is a good picture I have to reject it in the end, the quality is just too poor.
Really everything before the Nikon D300-D700 era is pretty lame. I wish I had simply used 100% film instead of 50-50 because the mid-2000s digitals just don't hold up.
And certain combinations, like portraits with the Nikon D80 or D200 (CCD) with the 50/1.4D wide open, have a unique look that I like, especially at ISO 100.
But most of the time they suck compared to contemporary cameras. I regret all of the marginal shots I tried with the older gear. Even when it is a good picture I have to reject it in the end, the quality is just too poor.
Really everything before the Nikon D300-D700 era is pretty lame. I wish I had simply used 100% film instead of 50-50 because the mid-2000s digitals just don't hold up.
fotoism
Member
Number of megapixel sensors and displays, along with highly developed digital lenses, IBIS....etc. etc. are goodies for us to drool on. Some of these actually can help make our photography better one way or the other, but lack of these goodies should not spell the death sentence for a photographer's artistic life. Feature chasing to me is more for wants and not needs.
Just for the fun of it, below is a picture from my first ever digital camera, very low megapixels. Enjoy.
Just for the fun of it, below is a picture from my first ever digital camera, very low megapixels. Enjoy.