Actually we do. Most 35mm Lenses have diffraction limits around 25 Mpxl when properly used (usually technique limits your resolution to below this, but many lenses can do it). The MTF curves drop off really sharply for sub-pixels details (duh), which is not how film behaves.
End result? 20x30" prints from 10-12 Mpxl cameras are noticeably soft up close. Softer than film would be. And that bothers me.
Actually we've reached sufficient pixel DENSITY in the 1.5x crop factor (see: D300). Raising that much more is not a great idea, because of noise and sensitivity issues. However, what I am looking for is that same density in a fullframe sensor size. The fabled D3x will probably finally bring this to the table (on the Nikon side, yes I know Canon already has it), but it's a generation out until that sensor gets stuffed into a Dx00-like body.
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Actually we do. Most 35mm Lenses have diffraction limits around 25 Mpxl when properly used (usually technique limits your resolution to below this, but many lenses can do it). The MTF curves drop off really sharply for sub-pixels details (duh), which is not how film behaves.
End result? 20x30" prints from 10-12 Mpxl cameras are noticeably soft up close. Softer than film would be. And that bothers me.
Actually we've reached sufficient pixel DENSITY in the 1.5x crop factor (see: D300). Raising that much more is not a great idea, because of noise and sensitivity issues. However, what I am looking for is that same density in a fullframe sensor size. The fabled D3x will probably finally bring this to the table (on the Nikon side, yes I know Canon already has it), but it's a generation out until that sensor gets stuffed into a Dx00-like body.