I need MORE megapixels!
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- čas přidán 25. 01. 2024
- Having swapped to the Fuji X-T5, you’d think 40mp would be enough now.
But no, I want more. I NEED more! Let me explain...
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Which is why I simply bit the bullet - an expensive one at that - and for my very special birthday 🎉 I bought myself the Leica Q2 which lens is very capable of capturing all the crops I need. So far, so good. Thank you for all your videos- I’ve been a big fan for a few years now.
Like a hampster in a wheel, it goes round and round. 😮
I'd actually be totally OK with a relatively high resolution 9600x6400 pixel full frame camera that supported a 2x and 4x in-camera crop coupled with a high resolution 21mm lens.
The full frame view would give you a nice big wide 21mm full frame view, the 2x crop would give approximately a 42mm field of view with a still fairly healthy 4800x3200 resolution, and the 4x crop would give a much smaller 2400x1600 pixel resolution with an approximately 86mm lens field of view. The kicker though would be that the full resolution is still captured in the raw file, but the crop is embedded as metadata that is read and used by the various raw processors. This way you can go in the develop module in LR (or capture one) and change the crop later if you wanted to and you still had the full wide 21mm field of view to crop from. That'd be the ideal thing, at least for me.
Also, per your comment on different lenses giving a different perspective: Perspective does not come from the lens, but rather from the subject to camera distance. So if you wanted to shoot a portrait, you'd do the 4x crop mode, get to the right distance to frame it up right, then take the picture. The only thing that the 21mm lens is going to effect is your DOF. People commonly mistake the lens focal length for a given perspective rendering, but in fact it's just the simple fact that a given lens focal length forces you to stand a certain distance away to compose it is what gives that perspective. If you kept the same camera to subject distance and switched between a 24mm and 85mm lens and merely cropped in the 24mm shot to match the same FOV as the 85mm lens you'd discover that the only difference between the two shots is the 24mm shot has a deeper DOF. The perspective rendering is exactly the same between the two lenses.
Cropping in on the RAW file is not the silver bullet you hope it to be. When your camera records the uncropped full sensor readout of the scene, it metered for the entire frame or whatever portion of the frame based on metering mode (center, spot etc.) which is still relative to the overall frame. Your exposure will not always match your intention for what the crop should have been exposed for. Having the right lens on the camera still matters.
This is exactly the reason that when I had the chance, I refused to buy a Leica Q2 at a good price. Although the the Q2 produces images of exrtraordinay detail, clarity and quality, once cropped to 50mm those qualities diminish by quite a margine.
Focus point spot metering is nice.
@@Lizardheim Even that is spot metering and spot metering also applies an angle relative to the entire frame. Yes, you can get it right, metering a spot with the intent to crop for a portion of the image - but then why not frame for that in the first place when you already know at the time of exposure?
Nonsense. A well exposed image does not become a badly exposed image by cropping..
@@sonofoneintheuniverse what exactly is a well exposed image in your understanding? You set an exposure relative to the luminance values of the key part of an image. A well exposed image does not exist. You can get it right if you have previsualised the crop and exposed correctly for the key parts of the crop and not as an afterthought.
Most of us enjoy photography as a hobby. Having more MPs does nothing to improve our enjoyment and only produces unwanted stress; the stress of needing bigger and more memory cards, larger HDs and faster computer processors. Just as it is important to learn to achieve proper exposure in-camera, I would argue the same for composition. Today's pro zoom lenses are at least as good, if not better, than primes, so you're not losing image quality. Achieving proper framing in-camera is not that difficult with a pair of zooms. I have enlargements on my wall taken with a Canon 5D, 40D, a Lumix GX7, and Olympus EM1.2 and OM1. No one can tell whether it was taken with a 12mp, 16mp or 20mp sensor.
No you don't. A couple of weeks ago, I resurrected my twenty year old Nikon D70, and that CCD 6MP sensor set it to iso640 and did some night photography. I cant remember the last time I enjoyed photography so much, and a couple of the shots were really good. We dont need more megapixels or 700 focus points and twenty focus modes. We need to put fun back into photography and for that the simpler the camera the better.
I've just bought a D80, CCD 10MP. Harmless spring fun coming up...
Same thoughts here, I’ve got 24 mp fuji for the last 3 years and going to sell it as I’ve got the xt1 as my back up and realise this mp and technical war for me is getting out of hand.
I’m going backwards and honing my craft with basic camera and the so called not the best lenses .
Well, if you want fun, then there’s only one camera. The Holga. The King (or should that be Queen?!) of fun cameras!
Totally agree!I’ve got a Nikon d40 once in a while I snap some pictures with it and it puts a smile on my face how capable the camera is!Simple and fun and that ccd sensor has some great colours.For out and about photography simplicity is the key.
Very true. I am absolutely sure this is why all of a sudden, the sale of old film cameras have gone crazy. It is a backlash against all this ' technology ' going into the cameras, most of which we neither need nor want. I do shoot a lot of film, but I know that digital can be a lot of fun too if we learned to go simple.@@Librazhd76
I don’t feel an absolute need for more megapixels and I almost always crop my files. I have a Leica Q2 and M11. Crop as needed and all is good. RAW files will always be full fat even if software pretends otherwise when the file is imported. The only thing that changes is depth of field, assuming the distance to the subject remains unchanged. Oh and on metering, the Q2 meters from the crop selected in camera, not from the full frame.
12:15 Ahah! Another L-mount camera, the Sigma fp L, has an in-camera zoom. I believe it has 26 increments from 61mp. It also has a great many aspect ratio options -- including A4 for perfect prints.
I've been sticking to one lens and cropping since 2013 when I switched to the RX1. I didn't go through any trauma letting go of my previous OM EM-5 and lenses and enjoyed 10 years on that camera. I've found that my photography over the years has held up regardless of camera-even going back to my 6 MP Konica Minolta 5D, but what more megapixels has gained me has been-as you've pointed out-latitude in post with respect to composition and ability to compose with certain crops previz'd in cam. It's been a treat to shoot and travel with a very light kit.
We've definitely hit an inflection point of 40 mp+ requiring higher precision optics and IBIS to shoot effectively-at least for me, but the return on that investment continues to be an expanded latitude for composition. I, for one, definitely welcome that.
Fantastic insight and good narrative. Never thought that. And I never thought you never want a zoom lens especially telephoto for your landscape.
The problem with cropping in is that even though you still get a say, 20 megapixel file, your focus point actually is often altered because you've made the image smaller where you focused in the landscape, then changes so if you like me and do the hyperfocal method, you are going to have to move your. Hyperfocal spot as to not then end up with a slightly blurry. Foreground even though you Ve cropped in if that makes sense. This is something you need to consider when you're cropping in.
Canon 30D, 8.2mp and a nifty fifty f1.8 lens, both cheap as chips, and NO pay for editing suites = Amazing fun and incredible imagery that looks sweet as a nut even displayed on my 42" TV.
I just don't buy into the GAS syndrome.
I was given the 30D as the bloke that owned it from new said it was rubbish. He had bought the latest Sony A7iii.
I showed him my first round of images I shot on his 30D and he wanted it back.
NOPE. 😂
I have to admit I love my GFX 50s ii and XT5 ... And yes, the megapixels do make a difference when you are printing. Very large prints and I do 2 m by one. Made up prince for my customers so does make a difference in that instance
Craig, what you really, really want is the Leica Q3. It is what you are asking for and probably cheaper than buying yet another mega-pixel APS-C Fuji and lenses.
Yeh, except the Q3 is 28mm by default. I don’t like 28mm!
A fascinating discussion around the MP WAR! I have had the Canon 5DsR (51mp) since 2016. I can't see why (or afford) to get any bigger. When you see a good print of moderately large size, no one cares about the MP. The newer 100mp Fuji GFX is expraordinalrily expensive, and that is just the body without the extraordinarily expensive lenses....where will it end?
Cheers, love the discussion and MP challenge
Oh man, Steve Vai Flexable. Some amazing Zappa inspired music there. (Notably Little Green Men). Then Vai's signature guitar noises shine in The Attitude Song. One of my favourite albums of all time, and to think it was recorded in his apartment on an 8 track. Mind blowing.
12:20 You are basically describing the concept of a Leica Q3. You are welcome ;-)
Just added Steve Vai into my list. Thanks for the nudge.
Wow what an interesting bundle of thoughts. See how self-trained (brainwashed?) we are for set focal lengths, click stops at 35, 50 and so on (my Canon G5Xii does that). Convenience (let's have it all) versus simplicity (just take a 35) what do we want and when do we want it? Surely the ways of the phone must increasingly influence our cameras. 24mm to 400mm and back again.... Good Luck Graig 👍 Thanks once more for putting up such thought provoking posts.
Really nice images, even with the existing hardware., Another option you didn't consider (yet?), could be SIRUI's anamorphic lenses, which exist for Fuji's X mount too ... or maybe not? So little time, much to choose/try ;-)
Hi Craig, my Nikon DSLR has 14 Megapixels and is more than enough for me. And I can also enlarge big prints with no image degradation. Nice Album as usual, thanks Craig ☺️
Thanks Craig ☺️
Interesting discussion. Another software tool that would be useful I think would be automatic pixel binning at a maximum resolution reducing the noise when using the native format and dealing with a 200MP file. This sort of software telephoto is being used by the 60MP Leica Q with its fixed 28mm lens, successfully I think. I always liked the idea of the multi-focal length lenses that Leica developed to match the frame lines in their rangefinders, optimized for a few focal lengths instead of continuous zoom.
I like different focal lengths for their different properties such as compression and distortion. They are tools of the creative mind in photography. Unless you just want snapshots, in which case, use your phone.
I have often fantasized about a square sensor (with diagonal size to match existing APS-C or FF lenses). A square APS-C (image circle) sensor would be about 20x20mm and have more pixels than a rectangular (3:2) sensor, so more usable megapixels with the same lens.
Choosing different aspect ratios, as well as (landscape/portrait) orientations, could be done quite easily, no need to for a vertical grip.
It would also bring back some of the 6x6 medium format nostalgia.
I’m with you on this and wrote a piece about it not long ago for my e6 subscription
Funny the other day I said to my photo friend, that I want a 100mp medium format camera with a lens that can go from 8mm to 800mm and get sharp photos at all focal lengths, but I don't want to spend more that $1000 on it and has to be less than 1kg. No different in any hobby, everyone is always searching for the perfect setup, there is none and we need to stop, but that drives companies to do more and sell us new stuff.
Thumbs up for the Flexable.
Digital cropping just isn't the same as changing focal length, the proportions of the elements in the photo, and the DoF relationship between the elements, changes quite a bit.
Actually, all of that is wrong. An image taken with a camera from the same perspective (=same camera to subject distance) with a 28mm lens and a 50mm lens and a 90mm lens or whatever focal length will ALWAYS have the same proportions of the elements and the same DoF relationship because ALL of these things are ONLY impacted by camera to subject distance, not the focal length. There is no such thing as perspective distortion caused by choice of focal length, only by choice of where you stand in relation to the subject and its background. Don't trust me on this? Pick up a copy of Ansel Adams' text books, he explains it quite well in The Camera, The Negative, The Print.
@@thedarkslide you are right, what people say as the full frame, or even the medium format look is simply the abilities of the light to enter the sensor closer due to it being bigger thus allowing for closer minimum distance with a longer lens, hence the more bokeh
This just seems like pendantry to miss the point. You wouldn't do birding with a 35mm lens and expect to get the same kind of results as a 600mm just by cropping, because even if you had enough pixels and resolution to crop in close enough, the background would be completely different (mostly likely a chaotic mess). The difference isn't as stark as between a 35mm and 40mm, but it's still there, and still informs how best to frame and compose the image.
@@whafrog i think you are the one who are missing the point. Using an extreme example and outlier to prove an argument is simply bad faith. What people generally want with more megapixel is to simply change from 24-50 in focal length. Maybe from 16-24. And those are very reasonable with higher megapixels, especially the new fuji and sony and the medium format like the hasselblad and gfx
@@whafrog Nope, you are still wrong. And it's quite an important aspect of photography: understanding the definition and impact of perspective. If you stand in the same location and the relation of all subjects is fixed in the scene, all focal lengths will render that relationship the same. And yes, if you crop into such a 28mm frame to magnify to the crop of 200mm you would get EXACTLY the same as you get with a 200mm lens in terms of "compression" and so forth. The relationship of elements in a scene only changes if you physically change your position. Go read up on it, pick up a copy of Ansel Adams' "The Camera" and treat yourself to some basic and foundational knowledge on photography.
Fuji digital zoom or aspect ratios have always only affected jpgs not the raw file. I would love to see an Xpan crop ratio. Nice video.
Phones are reaching the limit of what extra megapixels can do for you without increasing sensor size. 200MP is rather useless when it is all downscaled to 12.5 anyway, and is of benefit only with digital.zoom. While this gives you an impressive 4x crop zoom... theoretically... those crops are really muddy units the subject is incredibly well lit. Most modern phones don't do well past 2x crops. And newer ones are going back to 3x dedicated telephotos to fill that gap.
I have recently shot the Leitz Phone with the 1" sensor, and that uses digital crop alone because it has no other cameras. I love the softer edges and more natural look compared to oversharpenedand oversmoothened photos from some others. Down to 20mp versus 50/100/200 phones, but that big sensor and the big pixels make it feel more enticing.
I'm switching over to the Hasselblad X2D primary for the resolution. The 7 stop IBIS and 1tb internal memory/future proof type B is a bonus. In 5 years I'll probably switch to the 500 megapixel!! 😁 😁
With the relatively low cost of memory, I wish more cameras came with high-speed, built-in storage. Even if it was a small amount in addition to a card slot (the category of camera I use doesn’t have the resolution of the x2D…yet), it’d be an amazing feature.
You probably know this, but the Lumix S1R has a 65:24 option and a multi-shot mode (processed in-camera) of just shy of 200mp.
I, too, use the Xt5 and really use only 2 lenses with it, the 16-80 and the 50-140. I tried the 16-55 for a while, but in back-to-back comparisons, I could not see any better image quality than the 16-80 so I kept the 16-80 and sent the 16-55 back. Good quality zooms are the way for me (I have found this with Canon and Sony over the years too) :) I don't really see any image benefit in primes other than wider than F2.8 - but then I photograph landscapes, so F8 is 'very open' to me. I get it for portraits (which I don't take), but only due to the bokeh
@ImolaS3 an interesting observation about the 16-80 vs 16-55 comparison. I have the 16-80 on an X-T5 and find it's IQ more than adequate at all focal lengths. This despite the widely-held view that the 16-80 is an inferior lens (Fujifilm don't even include it on their list of 40 mp resolving lenses) and the fact that values on the used market fall like a stone.
16-80 is now my favourtie lens on my xt4 for street and travel. light, versatile, lots of scope. i take a prime alternating between 50, 35, 23 but i find the f2 wr range to suffer by comparison to the viltrox1.4 equivalents. and 24mp is plenty plenty.
Steve Vai Flex-able - a classic! Great vid as always, but the record made me pipe in with a quick comment. Related to your points - I too have wondered why camera makers don't offer more aspect ratios in their cameras. If you can offer two - offering more should be simple. It would be nice to see 3:1 in the viewfinder, right?
You’d think Fuji would, considering they used to make the GX617 3:1 pano camera. Previous owners of that camera (me!) at least should be offered that!
Little.. green men.... theeeey... look so funny, funny!
You're right and wrong :) we'll likely have both. And perhaps the likes of the Q2 with its 28mm lens and in-body crops at 35, 50, and 75 mm will be bigger market
I do like what Leica are doing. Maybe a Q4 will answer my prayers!
@@e6Vlogs I'd like hardshops on my 12-40mm at 17.5 & 25 or a button to really lock a focal length in
@@madefromfilm or you can crop it to 135mm in PP, it will not look good thaught
You are right:
Canon's most important innovation this century was and is the magic dust removal system which changed the quality of life forever.
Moar pixels! 😆
I would love to see a sensor size war and have a large format sensor.
Great debate - and challenging the norm. Fantastic ideas Craig. Also intereted in your recent purchase from Chillblast as I'm in the same situation as yourself with a creaking PC. I'm sure you have done more than myself in terms of investigation - I am also keeping that particular model bookmarked and waiting to push the button. Are you in ownership of it yet and does it meet your expectations?
Yes, bought this in December. My second PC from them, the first 10 years ago, which worked flawlesly for all those years.
In previous videos you have said you longed for a Leica. A Leica Q3 might fit your requirements and possibly cheaper than all your Fuji gear. Automatic focal length cropping is also built in Lightroom.
Not sure I could accept that default 28mm focal length, too wide for me!
Hi craig. Please let me know where is the 3x1 image size format at 5.22
The landscape with the trees.
For me 24 Mpx is sweetspot ,good for all kind of photography
I consider more megapixels to be a downgrade. I'm strongly opposed to dealing with 40+ MP RAW files (plus associated JPEGs) for all images I shoot just for the select occasions where I need to crop in to a degree that moderate resolutions won't allow. Particularly because the entire processing pipeline needs expensive upgrades to facilitate these edge cases. It feels like buying a Ferrari as a family car, just because I want to use it on the occasional track day.
Mind boggling stuff, crops. Lens & sensor harmony seems to me more simple to understand and implement.
I don't see it as the future. It's not the megapixels; it's the sensor size. Cropping is convenient, but there is a limit. If you keep cropping a FF or APSC sensor, you will reach a tiny sensor like the one in the phone or smaller. The image quality, dynamic range, and noise performance will suffer. No cropping will replace a proper focal length. You wouldn't choose a tiny sensor point and shoot as your main landscape tool, why settle for a crop which is effectively the same.
Enjoy your vids. Switched from Canon after 30 yrs to OM-1 so guess I am,going in opposite direction.
My thought is shoot what you like, like what you shoot. Jealous of album collection 😀
Sounds good to me.
Nice editorial. However, the precedent Fuji's are 26 MP. The earlier XT20 and XH1 were 24MP.
…or so they tell you! 🤔
The "digital zoom" method will get more important, but I don't think that it will completely replace interchangeable lenses. Having specialized lenses for certain tasks is a good thing (a dedicated macro, or very long telephoto lenses, or very short wideangle lenses), but for "mid range" - yes, makes sense. The Leica Q3 already does exactly that, having a high-quality 1:1.7/28 mm lens and doing "crops" up to 75 mm on a 60 MP sensor (resulting in 8 MP resolution, 18 MP for 50 mm - which is quite nice). Throwing away resolution to zoom isn't that good of an idea in the long run, and resolution will hit a physical limit at some point. But for an "everyday camera", it sounds reasonable. On the other hand - a fixed lens makes sensor cleaning a problem, and it will be necessary at one point in the future, unless the whole system is completely sealed against anything …
I was never interested in the Fuji x 100 V as a fixed 35 mm lens, but this upcoming Vl version will have 40 MP sensor and ibis and I’m seriously seeing it as a one camera solution for 35 50 shooting. GAS is a real disease.😂
Exactly! If this is true, this is how I believe Fuji will want you to use it. As a twin lens camera, just like Leica with their Q series. There’s sense in my ideas!
Hi Craig, you need to take a dive into the lens technology, because cropping is never going to give the same results or look as a proper telephoto lens! Greetings Ruud👋🏻
I'm guessing that limiting the manufacturers to one lens, even a very expensive one, would put them out of business. So I doubt if this will happen even if technologically possible.
Megapixels…pfffft. I’m waiting for the Fuji X-T37 when we get a gigapixel sensor. 😬
The only problem that I have with zooms is myself 😂
"Would you like to format?"
...oh no. 😳
I don't think MPs will ever replace having the appropriate lens for a given situation............I've recently "upgraded" for a 30MP Canon R to the 24MP R3 and the difference is night and day, the R was nice but R3 is leaps and bounds ahead
I have your answer Craig:
Bring your birthday forwards (say to a date in March 2024), and put the new Hasselblad 907X CFV100c, on your gift list. Urge each participant, to pitch in for this beautiful toy of yours.
With this Hasselblad, you'll get those glorious panoramic shots, in a single shot, and the raw files will have enough megapixels to make you "whet."
I think if lenses were 100% perfect this would make sense, but in the real world an uncropped image preserves the character of a lens. There are a lot of features that can vary from the center to the edge: sharpness, bokeh shape, contrast, saturation, vignette, distortion, etc.
Sounds like a lot crop work & time in front of a PC to get the photos you want? Oh Well as long as it’s still fun and games.
If you upscale that Sony 40 megapixels sensor to a 33xx44mm sensor size you get 157 megapixel and for me that will be enough, Sony have the sensor, it is just a question of time before we will see it in a Fuji GFX or HBL X, maybe even in a new type of Sony Camera.
Didn't listen to anything you said, ended up digging out my Steve Vai album and thinking is he a 200mp guitarest the best you could buy:)
What’s the equivalent of a camera sensor with 7 strings?!
A dust bin!
I see what you are saying but this doesn’t address compression or depth - cropping is a very different thing imo
Well I think your time for GFX will come :-) It's even more obviouse when you consider that it shoots 4:3. Cheers
Have the Nikon Z5. 24mp. Came from the D200 at 10.2mp...... BUT and it's huge!!! If I use the Z5 in DX/ APC mode it's still just 10.2mp.... 18 years later and no real world improvement
You were not sent the new hasselblad? Guess not
Sadly not. Obviously, I haven’t been good enough! 😢
Get good with less MP. People love the Fuji film recipes for the imperfection/finality of the shots. Also, unless you are printing these shots most images on the internet are 72 dpi JPEGs so when you change the 300 dpi of these files to 72 they will look huge on monitors.
You are thinking of Leica Q3, don't you?
They know what they are doing those Leica chaps!
@@e6Vlogs I wish I could afford it. A Q3 will cover more than 80 procent of my photography needs
@@e6Vlogs They do. It's bloody lovely. I wish they'd stop sending me emails about the M11
Then again - I wish I had you eye for a composition
@helenhiggs6171 you won't lose your ability to compose correctly just because you use another camera
I'm staying with my 24MP Nikon D750 till my dying days.
Дорогой Craig Roberts, так купите LEICA Q3 порадуйте себя, ведь жизнь одна!
Вот вам и пиксели и один первоклассный объектив Summilux 28mm f/1.7 и кадрируйте, как вам нравится..
I would, but unfortunately I only have ONE wife too!
Is that a Leica on the shelf behind you …😳
You’re looking for a “one trick pony” lens. And that’s a unicorn find. Some look for mystic unicorns others look for fabled mermaids 😂
A mermaid with a Leica is my dream find!
That's the issue. Different focal lengths give different perspectives if you've zoomed with your feet rather than cropping in post. But keep at it, you'll get there. The GFX is on the horizon, then your upgrade from micro 4/3rds will be complete.
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They'd lose too much revenue from lens sales offering a system that only needed one lens I reckon. And camera companies have a fraction of the r&d budget of the phone manufacturers to resolve the telephoto issues. Don't hold your breath on Fuji offering more crops in camera. I asked years ago without a result.
Perhaps I’ll have a word myself with Fuji. I’ll use your previous request as backup!
mmmmh, so if I thing about what you are saying, you need the extra megapixel to zoom in and reframe the picture, some might say it is the composition of a photo.
I got out and look for a compelling composition and take a picture, (Following your channel for years that is what you did until now)
If I follow your argument here, now what you want to do is: ...you got out, just take a 200MPixel Image of the whole scenery in front of you and do the composition in front of your computer?
No, definitely not. I want to do it in camera. As always.
Less megapixels, better technique. Simples 😅
You saying I’ve got worse since getting the X-T5?!
No, but chasing mega pixels isn't always the answer. As to whether you've gotten better or worse, only you can truthfully answer that one.
More megapixels is making my life easier and allowing me to take more pictures. That’s gotta be good!
The idea of "one prime fits all" (or actually, "one prime crops all") 😉 has some downsides for some.
I'd say it is many-fold:
1) creativity. Some like to explore a scene with various possible field of views of possible composition ideas. See, what works. See, if and when it sparks in your brain.
Often, when I didn't do that and just did a naive "I just want it all" rather panoramic shot of an entire pretty scene, I sometimes regret it bitterly back at home, that I had simply overlooked a great telephoto opportunity.
2) lens quality. Zooms are so much on par with primes (I don't know to what extent this is true with Fuji X zooms though), that when burdening the prime shot with a crop, then the zoom would win quite easily in an A/B comparison?
3) cleanness degradation (noise, DR). If you crop images, they become noisier, simply speaking. It is the same as when photographing with a smaller sensor camera in the first place. For the noise level, it doesn't matter, if the sensor size crops the scene, or if you do it yourself in Photoshop/Lightroom.
4) lens limits
Lenses are planned and designed to achieve only a certain resolution on a sensor (line pairs per mm), for its cost budget and profitability target. Usually, they fit the sensor resolution of the best cameras at the time when the respective lens was released. This applies to both zooms and primes.
5) non-lens limits
Other effects (most notably the lens aperture diffraction) (possibly also an anti-aliasing filter) are also resolution limiters. With cropping, you might magnify these blur sources to a level where it might become visible?
But if your actual point is, that the future, probably "everything" will become AI, and AI will synthesize gorgeous images from technically compromised shots, then you might be right.
- Input: a Polaroid or a Holga with an all-plastic lens.
- Output: award-winning 100 megapixel pixel-to-pixel-sharp image 😉
More mega pixels less light gathering capacity. Size of tip of little finger compared to light hiting tip of thumb. So less light gathering capability the more pixels in same sensor. One size doesn't fit all especially if you want details in poor light on say a kingfisher or wren. Just physics getting in the way. a 12 mp ful frame sony a7s could virtually shoot in complete darkness in human eye terms vs 24 mp ful frame a7 bother from just those massive 12mp gathering more light with the right lens.
Jeez we're still doing the camera masturbation videos? I thought the whole 'megapixel' craze ended years ago. Hasn't there been enough fawning over 'tech specs' and 'guys should i move to full frame ' by now?? I guess not
With the 61MP Sony A7RV and A7CR camera bodies, they finally enabled 26MP medium and 15 MP small raw files to be captures, in addition to the full 61MP. In addition, there is a crop mode that truly crops the raw files from full frame to APSC FOV and resolution. After all these years, finally!
It's always sad to see (and my eyes roll) when I see people buy an Intel based PC (from an anti-consumer underhand corporate company), over a Ryzen system from a more ethical company that actually offers better value for money, consistently better performance, absolute better power efficiency, longer term viability (less system-slowing vulnerability fixes), and longer CPU upgrade possibilities. (Nvidia looses shine too with respect to corporate behaviour.)
I love my i9.
Lol
Getting more pixels its not the way, alll you do is crop in. Take the right picture and you have no need to crop in. Basically needing to crop in so far is to admit you need to get closer.
Sometimes you can’t get closer. That’s facts. Therefore, you can either change lens or use the sensor resolution.
Nice video! Thank You! I think you are a "bit lazy", and disregard one VERY IMPORTANT factor. FOV is not, I repeat NOT, another lens! And even with a 35mm on a APSC Sensor it will NEVER look like a 50mm on a FF sensor!!! using a 50mm on a APSC makes it a 75 mmm FOV, and to make the same picture as you could with a 50mm on a FF you have to be farther away, which in turn changes the look and the DOF compared to an FF with an 50mm.... I'm also taking into account that you may use f2 on the FF/50mm combo and a 35mm/f1,4 on a APSC wich makes the DOF "the same" ----- but really the lenses are very differently build....DOF, "compression", the distance to the subject must all be taken into account. Many of my friends, that know and see more than I, INSTANTLY recognize a cropped vs non cropped images. Even if You have 200 mp and use a 17mm lens cropping to the FOV of a 200mm ...It will never look like a 200mm...especially if you have some depth in you pictures. So no! More than 40 are not needed, except for very large prints... More lenses are better.... Theres no work around in physics....
One, you are right, I am lazy! But I’m not trying to make an apsc lens look like FF. Who’s comparing to full frame? Not me.
@@e6Vlogs You're right. You never compared it to FF. But You like to get a little closer, to tell the story better by placing the right things into the frame... I just think it looks very strange sometimes...especially people portraits or flowers in the foregroung with some background visible too, one can really see the 17mm or a 23 or a 35 compared to 50 85/105 lens. The 105mm Makro on a APSC was great because the DOF and pixelpitch of a 40 mp apsc.... but then switched to FF and suddenly the working distance made sense and the clarity was so much better (being closer makes a lot better resolution) ... SO for a grasshopper a apsc was good because i didnt scare it away as easily, but for reproduction or clocks a 24 MP FF was clearer and sharper compared to the 40 mp apsc, even if the raw resolving capabillity of smaller pixel would be better...but only if taken in the same distance to the subject.... And to stitch EVERY picture, keeping the "FF distance" (not having everything on a single shot) was getting on my nerves a lot.... I sometimes do it intentionally with portraits if I have a disciplined Human / no wind for flower pics... Using a 300mm and going as close as possible, taking also pictures of the surrounding on the same focusplane and then stitching all of them... The background is blurred a lot, but the FOV is compared to a 35 mm (brenzier method)! But thats too much for everyday.... The right lens for the "story", as is more recognized in movies, makes the picture even better.... Kinda nerdy with those things...Sorry....
Frankly, where is the difference in cropping versus a zoom ? Isn’t the appeal of a prime the concentration and focus on one specific field of view - specifically not being flexible so easily? And Craig, admit it, aren’t you are looking for excuses to upgrade that odd PC again? 😂
15 minutes of waffling and not saying much in the end....
You should meet me in real life!
YES, 15 minutes of someone's recounting of all the cameras they bought