Originally posted by BrendanPK I can not agree more. I also agree w/ pop photo for a 6mp at 6fps mode.
As someone on photo.net pointed out, 1.6mpix is 3×3 pixel-binning from a 4672×3104 sensor. If they went to 2×2, it'd be 3.6mpix. Any other option would be non-integer division of the photosites so may be hard to do fast.
With 3.6mpix, if you extrapolate from the 9× to 4×, you get roughly 9 fps. I could definitely use that sometimes.
This is probably not possible, but it'd be nice to be able to have the option to use the center quarter or ninth of the sensor rather than binning, so you'd have the option of the same burst rate but with a 4.5× or 3× crop factor. So, with your new 300mm f/4, you get 21fps and a 35mm-effective focal length of 1350mm.