| Sorry for shanghaiing your thread Codiac - I just can't help having a go at RH every now and again.
Anyway to the original intentions of this thread - it is really nice to fantasise about what we want in our ideal camera and I find it sort of bizarre that we are now looking at the possibility of an 18MP camera considering it was only a few years ago that I was so happy with my 6MP DS (still am to be honest)
What I find even stranger is the fact (and it is fact) that most if not all photos taken will be shown to relatives, friends and the world as compressed 72 dpi jpegs - a very minor percentage of shots will ever be printed and an extraordinarily minor percentage will ever be blown up to the sizes that require such high MP's.
But the reality is that the consumer wants more MP's, more dynamic range (I bet you that most wouldn't have a clue what it is though), faster AF, more fps etc, etc.
And the largest section of the DSLR consumer market will be using these high end 18MP cameras with 50 FPS to take pictures (using a $100 kit lens) of kids playing sports to be shared with relatives through emails seen on screen at 72dpi.
Hope the Ds can last me out till the 30MP 100fps 3d Pentax K whatever comes out. |