Originally posted by Peter Zack I completely agree with Ogl on this one. I have a second shooter that bought a 7D. When I got his last wedding shots, I could only use a few.
That says something about the 7D (or maybe only about this copy of a 7D).
It says nothing about 18MP being reasonable for APS-C or not.
Originally posted by Peter Zack Sorry to be blunt but if you think you need 21MP or 18 or 300 whatever on APSc then you need to get off the drugs. You're drinking the marketing cool aide.
Sorry Peter, I find that offending. The physics on this question is easy. 18MP or 21MP don't imply worse images than 14.6MP. On the contrary (if done right).
Canon might have had to pull some tricks which didn't help IQ (I mentioned their two green channels approach before which got them into trouble with balancing and cost them a bit of resolution). Independently of whether the 7D has a systemic problem or individual copies are worse off, its performance cannot be construed to argue against >14.6MP sensors.
Originally posted by Peter Zack Hell one of the benchmark cameras is the D700 and it's 12 MP as well. You won't hear owners complaining about the IQ of that camera.
Be that as it may, converted to APS-C that's only 5MP worth of resolution. I'm fine with anyone who finds that sufficient. I'd want more than that.
Last edited by Class A; 06-09-2010 at 05:23 AM.