FlyingPete
10th of May 2005 (Tue), 15:34
I keeping with the topic of the Nikon interview, here is one I found on Tomshardware from Canon:
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050324_143333.html
Interesting, no 'pot shots' at Nikon!
An interesting quote:
"Consumers generally don't care about really high megapixel counts. It's the commercial studio that need to do double page spreads or 11 inch by 7 inch prints at 300dpi. We don't think there will be a huge jump in megapixels, rather it will be incremental, like f-stops. The Canon 1DS Mark II is at 16 megapixels, our next camera might have 22 megapixels.
On the compact point and shoot cams, each pixel is about 2 microns across, on the large frame cameras like the 1DS Mark II, the size is 6.4 microns. Theoretically, if you didn't care about noise, we could make a digital SLR that shoots 100 megapixels, but you would have to deal with huge file sizes."
Nice to know our lads are thinking smartly on pixel count and noise, and look out for a 22MP 1D series!
http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050324_143333.html
Interesting, no 'pot shots' at Nikon!
An interesting quote:
"Consumers generally don't care about really high megapixel counts. It's the commercial studio that need to do double page spreads or 11 inch by 7 inch prints at 300dpi. We don't think there will be a huge jump in megapixels, rather it will be incremental, like f-stops. The Canon 1DS Mark II is at 16 megapixels, our next camera might have 22 megapixels.
On the compact point and shoot cams, each pixel is about 2 microns across, on the large frame cameras like the 1DS Mark II, the size is 6.4 microns. Theoretically, if you didn't care about noise, we could make a digital SLR that shoots 100 megapixels, but you would have to deal with huge file sizes."
Nice to know our lads are thinking smartly on pixel count and noise, and look out for a 22MP 1D series!