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24mp 10753.23%
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02-23-2014, 08:57 PM   #61
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QuoteOriginally posted by dtmateojr Quote
I'm a physics major. I eat gaussian curves. I major in optics and dsp. I know what I'm talking about I don't think you understand diffraction.
Then optics should have started with your ~3rd 'physics' class, no?

Listen, I called them gaussian curves because that's good enough to achieve the correct answer. Do some 'binning' with any function simplification you'd like and it'll come out as plain as day... smaller bins will have more information at any realistic aperture but in particular at an aperture of only f/11. The peaks are just too high even at f/11.

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QuoteOriginally posted by ElJamoquio Quote
Then optics should have started with your ~3rd 'physics' class, no?

Listen, I called them gaussian curves because that's good enough to achieve the correct answer. Do some 'binning' with any function simplification you'd like and it'll come out as plain as day... smaller bins will have more information at any realistic aperture but in particular at an aperture of only f/11. The peaks are just too high even at f/11.

You know what, just carry on. You probably own a D800 (or worse, a K3). All this talk about resolution and sharpness don't mean anything if you can't shoot. But just because you do not believe in gravity does not mean it won't kill you if you jumped off a cliff
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QuoteOriginally posted by dtmateojr Quote
You know what, just carry on. You probably own a D800 (or worse, a K3). All this talk about resolution and sharpness don't mean anything if you can't shoot. But just because you do not believe in gravity does not mean it won't kill you if you jumped off a cliff
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QuoteOriginally posted by ElJamoquio Quote
My education, my possessions, and my photography are not relevant in the least in this matter.

I don't know anything about you and my posts were meant for the benefit of everyone. Just sharing whatever little I know. It's up to you if you believe them or not.

If you do want the math, I'll leave you with this one: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/resolution.shtml

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That doesn't mention Fraunhofer at all. We're not looking for airy disk diameters.
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QuoteOriginally posted by ElJamoquio Quote
That doesn't mention Fraunhofer at all. We're not looking for airy disk diameters.

Higher math will not improve your resolution. Trust me lol!
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Do the math with any intensity equation you'd like representing a slit experiment, etc; it will agree with the experiments showing that at F/11 there's a substantial improvement with a decrease of bin size.

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QuoteOriginally posted by dtmateojr Quote
[/COLOR]The whole point of my post is that, say at f11, a D4 with 16mp will resolve exactly the same as a D800 with 36mp with the same lens. The D800 will have a bigger image and that's it. You can blow up the D4 image in PS to arrive at the same 36mp without loss of detail. The advantage of the D4 is that you are not wasting space, your canera can shoot faster, your PC can process the images faster AND on the pixel level, the D4 has an unfair advantage over the D800 because of the larger sensels.
Again, diffraction is a function of lens + sensor - your F/11 hard limit you seemingly pull from the air isn't even tied to a specific lens (which it needs to be, to have a chance of being true ). As I said before, you may be able to find a lens that has a curve that drops off so fast at f/11 that a 24MP and 36MP would give equal resolution - but that probably wouldn't be a lens you'd consider for landscape work, because it would be kinda bad.

Here's some graphed measurements from Lensrentals, 24MP D3X vs. 36MP D800, same lens:




As you can see, right at f/11 the 36MP D800 is resolving about 870l, the 24MP D3x around 780l. So much for your f/11 hard limit

Landscapers also talk about how sharpening can mitigate the effects of diffraction even more with higher-MP sensors. Here's the result of some research from this link:

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"As Simone has shown, the resolving power of a 36mp camera at f/22 does out resolve a 21Mp sensor at any aperture setting. And into the future, a 50Mp sensor will continue to out resolve the 36Mp sensor, even at f/22. This has even been shown in practise as the 7D has the same pixel density as a possible full frame 50Mp camera."





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QuoteOriginally posted by jsherman999 Quote
As I said before, you may be able to find a lens that has a curve that drops off so fast at f/11 that a 24MP and 36MP would give equal resolution - but that probably wouldn't be a lens you'd consider for landscape work, because it would be kinda bad.
FWIW, if such a lens were found (equal resolution between 24MP and 36MP at f/11) the lens would not be "diffraction limited" and it still would not prove anything.

I think he's getting the F/11 from the airy disk diameters, the assumptions behind which throw away a lot of good information.
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QuoteOriginally posted by jsherman999 Quote
Again, diffraction is a function of lens + sensor - your F/11 hard limit you seemingly pull from the air isn't even tied to a specific lens (which it needs to be, to have a chance of being true ). As I said before, you may be able to find a lens that has a curve that drops off so fast at f/11 that a 24MP and 36MP would give equal resolution - but that probably wouldn't be a lens you'd consider for landscape work, because it would be kinda bad.



Here's some graphed measurements from Lensrentals, 24MP D3X vs. 36MP D800, same lens:









As you can see, right at f/11 the 36MP D800 is resolving about 870l, the 24MP D3x around 780l. So much for your f/11 hard limit



Landscapers also talk about how sharpening can mitigate the effects of diffraction even more with higher-MP sensors. Here's the result of some research from this link:



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"As Simone has shown, the resolving power of a 36mp camera at f/22 does out resolve a 21Mp sensor at any aperture setting. And into the future, a 50Mp sensor will continue to out resolve the 36Mp sensor, even at f/22. This has even been shown in practise as the 7D has the same pixel density as a possible full frame 50Mp camera."











Don't fear the MP!



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You posted a graph with no axis labels? What are those numbers supposed to mean?

Now to the table...

That sharpening "technique" looks questionable at best. You can't create data from nothing.

The theoretical resolution limit for a D800 with a perfect lens is about 175 lpmm and yet even with their sharpening kung-fu they can only acheive 105 lol!!! Obviously their lens is not even good enough for the sensor. Now if you look at reasonable values for a good lens (yellow column) you can see that even that good lens is no match for the sensor at f8.

If anything, your post should tell you that as soon as you stop down to f8 you are already throwing away precious megapickles.
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QuoteOriginally posted by dtmateojr Quote
You posted a graph with no axis labels? What are those numbers supposed to mean?
Don't try to be coy, the axis are aperture & resolution, you can see that. (Ask Roger Cicala if you want the data in tabular form.)


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Now to the table...

That sharpening "technique" looks questionable at best. You can't create data from nothing.
You can take their particular sharpening technique up with them, if you want, but the're saying something that shouldn't be a shock to anyone who's really shot landscape - the effects of diffraction are not something to be scared of, and a lot of blur that introduces can be mitigated by simple sharpening to gain acutance back. If you shoot with lower resolution in the first place, you have less raw data to even have that option. Here, check this out, it also contains the graphs that confused you because the obvious axis values were not labeled..


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If anything, your post should tell you that as soon as you stop down to f8 you are already throwing away precious megapickles.
I still don't think you're getting it. You're losing resolution with every lens on every sensor once it's past it's MTF peak and starting to lose resolution to diffraction. When you start with more pixels, though, the absolute resolution will always be greater, up to some arbitrary lens-dependent point, maybe around f/16. You are not 'wasting' anything unless you're shooting pretty bad lenses at very small apertures all the time.

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I vote 24MP with less noise.
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QuoteOriginally posted by pearcemi Quote
I vote 24MP with less noise.
i agree... if it was in a crop sensor camera, that would have been a vote for more noise, not less, because higher pixel density usually means smaller pixels:

"Several factors affect noise.
Pixel size. Simply put, the larger the pixel, the more photons reach it, and hence the better the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for a given exposure. The number of electrons generated by the photons is proportional to the sensor area (as well as the quantum efficiency). Noise power is also proportional to the sensor area, but noise voltage is proportional to the square root of power and hence area. If you double the linear dimensions of a pixel, you double the SNR.
The electron capacity of a pixel is also proportional to its area. This directly affects dynamic range."
Imatest - Noise in photographic images

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QuoteOriginally posted by Tesla Quote
What is more important to you in a FF camera.. More pixels from a 36mp sensor or less iso noise from a 24mp sensor?
I want high ISO with good quality, 24MP gives better light sensitivity.
At the same time it is probably the quality of the sesnors available at design/build time that makes the choise "for us".
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