Chuck Westfall, at Canon USA, has said in the past that they saw sensors in the 20 megapixe range to be as far as most would want to go. Nikon's head of NPS (Nikon Professional Services) said at a workshop last fall that "The Megapixel wars about to be over." Of course, we're still waiting for Nikon to even really join that race. :-D
Canon has the technology to do 100 megapixels, according to what Westfall said, but who would want to handle all that data? My 1Ds Mark II at work produces 96 meg 16 bit tif files. And that's 16.7 megaixels. Who would want to pay for storage of 50 or 100 megapixel images? Not my employer! I'm thinking of getting a 10.2 megapixel 1D Mark III for a backup camera next year. Next year for two reasons. Captial purchase budget, and the AF problems that are still on-going with that camera. But for most things I photograph, wiht my photos rarely going over 30x40 inces in print, the 16.7 megapixels is just fine. Even one photo they blew up to about five feet wide, it held up really nicely. And that was a low-light shot hand-held at about 1/60 second!
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Chuck Westfall, at Canon USA, has said in the past that they saw sensors in the 20 megapixe range to be as far as most would want to go. Nikon's head of NPS (Nikon Professional Services) said at a workshop last fall that "The Megapixel wars about to be over." Of course, we're still waiting for Nikon to even really join that race. :-D
Canon has the technology to do 100 megapixels, according to what Westfall said, but who would want to handle all that data? My 1Ds Mark II at work produces 96 meg 16 bit tif files. And that's 16.7 megaixels. Who would want to pay for storage of 50 or 100 megapixel images? Not my employer! I'm thinking of getting a 10.2 megapixel 1D Mark III for a backup camera next year. Next year for two reasons. Captial purchase budget, and the AF problems that are still on-going with that camera. But for most things I photograph, wiht my photos rarely going over 30x40 inces in print, the 16.7 megapixels is just fine. Even one photo they blew up to about five feet wide, it held up really nicely. And that was a low-light shot hand-held at about 1/60 second!