Originally posted by SamuelDixon Is anyone else reading this stuff saying why on earth would anyone want a 100mp camera much less a 150mp camera? When have any of you ever needed even 50mp? 36mp? Probably incredibly rarely if ever.
I'm just waiting for someone to make a nice new bsi medium format sensor that's like 36mp. Kind of an a7s for medium format. Great low light performance, super low noise. Nobody needs all those mega pixels.
About month ago i was talking with guy, who is making bilbords and other street advertisement.
One of latest ads was huge bilbord (~7x20m), where lowest part of it was on eye level of people walking around. Client demands was, that lower pars of this picture had to look good for people standing on ground and watching it from less than 1 meter.
He had to make serveral pictures of model and merge those into one just to make it look good, and it was not easy work, when your picture must look dynamic.
That's about profesional use. And about amateur:
I realy like to protography nature, especialy landscapes and birds. It gives me quite some pleasure to zoom in wider picture and watch all those birds on it up close. I rarely shoot in bad light conditions, so i don't need so high ISO, but better resolution would be goread.
Also, in sport or animal photography it's much easier to shoot wider and then crop image, than shoot this small image first time.
OK, i don't have money for lastest tech, i still shoot K50, but if i had money...