This is not going to be a review or even a rehash of another announcement made elsewhere. If your interested in any of that, then have a look at the article on the British Journal of Photography’s site.
What I have is more of a question to fellow pro’s and amateurs alike... What is the point?
Seriously - Am I missing something important here? When, as an ‘enthusiast’, which is their quoted target market, are you going to need that kind of resolution? Very seriously, how many prints the size of the side of a building are you going to do?And, more importantly, have they exceeded the sweet spot of the number of pixels crammed into a defined area on the sensor?
Yes you could crop in to a silly degree and still have a printable resolution... Or could you?
I remember buying a Leica digital as a point and shoot to keep in my pocket - 12 squillian pixels and a nice red spot on it to make me feel warm and cosy about owning it. At first glance the images were fine - if shot at ISO 100. But on closer inspection, having that number of pixels crammed into a sensor the size of my little fingernail resulted in an image that at 100% looked not dissimilar to an oil painting - i.e. rubbish. And to be quite frank, depressing. Dare to increase the ISO and you opened the door to noise hell. In essence it was bloody pointless and I gave it to my wife and bought a G9 (that’s another story).
Other than being able to say at a dinner party that your camera ‘has’ 24.6 million pixels, will you just be paying $4000 to get thoroughly frustrated and upset? I certainly hope not, but there is a nagging doubt in my mind that says this will likely be the case.
Please, please, please get over pixel envy and the obsession of being full frame as the way to imaging nirvana. Especially if you are not splashing out on professional high quality glass to pop on the front of your camera.
Two rules of thumb worth keeping mind to help stop you spending good money, only to ‘wish you hadn’t...
- Too many pixels too close together = noise, distorted image and tears.
- Full frame sensors use more of your lens’ real estate = great, except that pretty much all lens issues are on the fringes. The cheaper your lens, the more issues you are likely to have with it the wider you go.
I hope Sony have found a sweet spot, I really do. At least their glass is likely to be good and I always had a lot of respect for Minolta kit - I even owned some and really liked it - So there is every chance that they may well have found the elusive sweet spot.
Might be worth ‘not’ rushing in too quickly to get your hands on one though and getting some real reviews, rather than the re-quoted from the manufacturer ones...
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