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I do think that megapixie engineering in cameras has gone well into the realm of "because we can". I use a digiback and I can't see the need to go beyond around 28MP for any job.
Doubling that would allow me to crop down to about 15% of a frame and still give the client a massive TIFF file but that's not really what being a photographer should be about, in my book.
Commercial snappers have been providing images for all manner of industry to use in all manner of media since digi cameras hit about 10/12mp. So why the need to keep biggering (it is a word, see Dr Seuss)?
For decades and decades 6*7 was considered to be the staple of pro photography with the Mamiya RB ruling the roost. If the same rate of biggering was applied to film cameras, the latest models would be shooting A2 sized film sheets.
Doubling that would allow me to crop down to about 15% of a frame and still give the client a massive TIFF file but that's not really what being a photographer should be about, in my book.
Commercial snappers have been providing images for all manner of industry to use in all manner of media since digi cameras hit about 10/12mp. So why the need to keep biggering (it is a word, see Dr Seuss)?
For decades and decades 6*7 was considered to be the staple of pro photography with the Mamiya RB ruling the roost. If the same rate of biggering was applied to film cameras, the latest models would be shooting A2 sized film sheets.