Originally posted by Clavius So... None of you guys crop at all? Ever?
That's what I bought the K-3 for... but you can still do some cropping even with a K-5. And I have 16x12 images that look gorgeous (and have sold at craft sales) taken with a 10 Mp Optio W80. I'm not sure how you come to the conclusion nobody crops, at all. Everybody crops. Many FF enthusiasts claim you can crop more with FF... some poor suckers have actually bought FF systems so they could crop more. But the simple fact is, people crop images all the time shooting APS-c, even 12 Mp APS-c. Hell, I used to crop 6 Mp APS-c for web display.
The thing is, people can say whatever they want, it doesn't make any of it true. And it's incredible how many people say these things, and then they get repeated over and over, until people just believe them and even the first guy never posted anything that shows what he's talking about.... personally, if they can't demonstrate what they are talking about, I really don't pay much attention to them. There is a lot of information out there in photography that is perpetuated because people don't know what they are talking about. people buy expensive stuff, and assume they are getting better results, but people are always lazy enough to just accept that what they have now is better for their purposes.
How many on here with various folksy opinions that sound like they should be true, have never subjected those notions to a blind taste? Many of us who have have been shocked by the results. Like when 9 out of 10 people can't tell the difference between a 100 DPI print, and a 300 DPI print. or can't position prints done at 72, 100 and 150 dpi, in the correct sequence. This is just not what the techno geeks want to hear. Many who do comparisons don't understand the absolute necessity of testing blind. If you do all your testing by the book, but don't blind test to see if your conclusions are generally accepted by people who don't now which image is which, you're wasting your time.
If Pentax came out with a 10 Mp APS-c camera based on the same low light sensor as the Nikon D4s, with no noise up to 24,000 ISO, i bet a lot of us would buy it "small" sensor and all. 10 Mp is actually a lot of camera.
Last edited by normhead; 03-18-2014 at 02:38 PM.