Thread: Flickr: Discussing 7D to many pixels have Canon gone to far??? in Canon DSLR User Group

Well, Daniel that was a nice marketing strategy, and yes the iso 6400 looks pretty damn clean. At least the noise is more film like than my 30D, which I couldn't even compare not having iso 6400.

@tommyris95 - My apologies if I misstated something. My education on CCD sensor design is dated (about the time the first Kodak DCS cameras were announced). I was fascinated with the prospects it had back then for the world of photography. Many things have changed since then, and I haven't kept up. CCD sensitivity, microlens design and processing software have all advanced greatly since then. But, continuously putting more pixel sites on...

Ok, if we look at the physics of things, what matters is the amount of light which is captured, and that is constant, divided to the energy in noise. If they can manage to keep approximatively the same amount of noise per unit area within a certain range of pixel densities, why not put the highest one on the market? Possible scenario: Lets say that Canon could have gained maybe a third of an f stop with a 12Mp sensor. Nobody would have...

7D didn't eliminate all the auto modes. There is still green box and CA...

"You don't know that - just pure speculation. " On a pixel level I think you'd need a major change in the laws of physics for a higher resolution sensor to be cleaner than a low res one (all other factors being equal). However, looking at the overall image things may be a lot closer than you'd think. "Scott, the point about high res is for crops." I don't agree. I think there are a lot...

If you can find someone who owns one just go out with them and try it. I was not that sure at first but after the shots I couldn't get with any of my other camera started rolling in with regularity I was sold. I am not looking back

Isn't it also a function of the light gathering ability of the pixels? So if smaller pixels have better light gathering ability, wouldn't that lead to better low light performance and also less noisy pictures? Isn't that what Canon is claiming about its 7d?

@ Nathan - you're right. ...also I'm thinking that maybe Canon thought that the high MPs go well with a sports/nature camera, for croppings sake?

At what point do we just go out and shoot? Pixel peeping and this obsession with noise and sharpness is killing photography. Sometimes I feel like we are so consumed with all this hooplah while forgetting the basics - light, exposure, composition.

I sort of agree, but then Canon already reduced the MP in the G11, what's stopping them from doing it in a DSLR. Especially since more SLR users know the difference, compared to P&S owners.