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Well according to various sources, which I cannot claim are correct, the higher the resolution, the more problematic hand holding becomes. Perhaps this is ONLY in the world of pixel peeping, and the reality is different. I read that the camera should be treated almost like a medium or large format camera in terms of principles.
I have noticed that my hand held shots and even some TRIPOD shots seem to suffer from what looks like camera shake - even when all the "normal" rules are followed.
I might do more reading
Good to see most of you have geld onto your manners
Yes, only pixel peeping In the images I've seen, the upside of 36mp is invisible when looking at anything less than an image the equivalent of four feet wide, minimum, compared to say the 5D3's 23mp.
But when you do enlarge things that much, and view from close range, everything else gets magnified too, like diffraction issues and camera shake, so the benefits become increasingly harder to realise. DoF parameters go out of the window, too.
Medium format and large format don't suffer these effects to the same extent, for a given ouitput size, because the enlargement multiplication is lower*. A tripod is needed for other reasons, but yes, similar kind of discipline needed.
Edit: lenses perform better at lower relative resolutions, too (basic MTF theory).
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