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wow!]]>Dec 4th 2007 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 12:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
/sarcasm off]]>Dec 4th 2007 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 1:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
Before buying your next high-end dig cam, read this article: http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=158&Page=1]]>Dec 4th 2007 1:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
Still, my point remains valid!!! =P]]>Dec 4th 2007 1:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 1:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
I believe that you're talking about something Nikon's D1 line used to do. DPReview discusses this on the first page of their D2X review (the must current info I could find on this topic):
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/NikonD2X/

The D1X had rectangular photosites which were interpolated to create square pixels. Since then, Nikon has moved to square photosites. The CMOS layout is the same as Canon's.]]>Dec 4th 2007 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
Maybe the dSLRs are much better - hell, for $5,000, I'm sure they must be.

Still, I think interpolation is a widespread problem among camera companies and what you see on a stat sheet is not always what you get megapixel-wise when you get the pictures into Photoshop. That's all I'm sayin'.]]>Dec 4th 2007 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
I don't think one exists from any company.]]>Dec 4th 2007 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
Digital SLRs are not the $89 Vivitar 14 megapixel hunk of junk you see at your local Wal-Mart.]]>Dec 4th 2007 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/key=Color_Filter_Array
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Camera_System/sensors_01.htm

The other interpolation your link refers to is different and is the kind thats used by point and shoots for their "digital zoom" which is similar to cropping images with software on your computer. I've never seen a dSLR that has a digital zoom.

http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Glossary/Digital_Imaging/Interpolation_01.htm

What your linked article says about the Fuji S3's sensor resolution is true but the SuperCCD in the S3 (now an S5) is a specialty sensor designed to give greater dynamic range and is aimed at portrait and wedding photography. Canon and Nikon don't use this type of sensor so the 6.1MP versus 12.3MP issue doesn't apply to their cameras. ]]>Dec 4th 2007 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/D3 sensor = 23.9 x 36mm per Nikon's website specs

Enjoy the cropped-frame teeny-tiny sensor on your not-quite-full-frame 5D, sucker!

And to the earlier poster who doesn't understand interpolation - Nikon and Canon both use sensors with Bayer filters that require interpolation. You misunderstood the article you linked to: the sensor that uses the least amount of interpolation is the Foveon sensor.

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Canon 5D:
35.8 x 23.9 mm CMOS sensor

Nikon D3:
36 x 23.9 mm CMOS sensor]]>Dec 4th 2007 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
i don't need the D3(yet) but i do want it so bad. i'd rather drop the 5Gs on some fast glass for now though. ]]>Dec 4th 2007 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
Digital also plays an effect in vignetting hence so many newly designed lenses.]]>Dec 4th 2007 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
Because DSLR sensors have color filters and micolenses in front of the actual sensors, they are sensitive to angle-of-incidence... shine light in at and angle the microlens wasn't designed for, and it'll vignette. How does that affect you? Full frame sensors have a higher angle-of-incidence from the center of the optic axis, so they're more prone to do this. So, you'd think that they could just design the microlenses to point more inward the further from the center of the sensor, and that would solve the problem, right? Well, if you've got a zoom lens, the angle will vary with zoom setting, so you can't optimize it easily. I'd guess there are lots of ways to solve it... smaller sensors, special lenses (but that invalidates the lens you have already bought), and software-correction (at the expense of dynamic range in the corners) - none are particularly good.]]>Dec 4th 2007 8:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 2:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/Dec 4th 2007 3:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/04/nikon-d3-full-frame-dslr-unboxed/
http://www.nikondigitutor.com/eng/d70s/index.php
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