Nikon on a roll - entry level 3200 @24mp...!!!

what will Canon respond with? For most folks picking up a dslr MP count often is a deciding factor - a trump card for the Canon till the T3. Any idea what Canon new entry level dslr will be like?

agreed. I meant folks moving from P&S with little to no idea of how dslr's actually work. Lets see what Canon has to offer....

1 Petapixel with an iPhone sensor.
People buying in that line usually are looking for a big black body and a "clack" sound when the picture is taken...

LOL.. just kidding

I don't think MP is major factor to make decision among people who looking for consumer level DSLR.
Nikon was well behind Canon for MP on DSLR for last few years, it was never the problem for them to keep prices at the same level with Canon if not higher.

It's a smart move by Nikon to use such high MP's. For people that actually know something about camera's it's stupid. It's gonna have pretty bad noise, moiré and aliasing.

Canon hasn't been doing a lot of good things lately: all their camera are worse (on paper) than Nikon's releases, the 1D C and 300C are just really bad value, ALL their release dates get pushed (1D X, super-telephoto primes etc), nobody cares for the two primes with IS recently released... And on-and-on it goes. Don't get me wrong, I'll stick with Canon because I find everything about their system really pleasing, but if I didn't care for vintage glass and much better ergonomics on Canon I'm pretty sure I would've gone with Nikon if I would start over.

kf095 wrote in post #14294186
I don't think MP is major factor to make decision among people who looking for consumer level DSLR.
Nikon was well behind Canon for MP on DSLR for last few years, it was never the problem for them to keep prices at the same level with Canon if not higher.

Working in camera retail, I can say that, mostly, it is still a big number that everyone looks at. I can't tell you how often peoples' first question about a camera is how many pixels it has.

There was a gal in my store the other week who wouldn't look at the D5100 over the T3i because she "didn't want anything less than 18 megapixels."

While the message is starting to make it's way to Mr. and Mrs. America, the megapixel is still the #1 headline feature for most.

I wonder how big the files are? Some people are going to be in for a nasty surprise...

MP's sell cameras, Canon needs to realize that.

rick_reno wrote in post #14298417
MP's sell cameras, Canon needs to realize that.

That may be true, but we don't want Canon to stuff the sensor so full that IQ (low light and noise) starts to degrade. I suppose they can stuff the Rebel series sensors, just leave the semi-pro and pro bodies alone.

You have the salesmen at best buy. Here is a 18mp t3i or here is the Nikon with 24 mp. People will ask what's the difference? Salesmen replies more mega pixel the better quality. Case closed.

rick_reno wrote in post #14298417
MP's sell cameras to people who don't know better, Canon realizes that.

Fixed.

Fricks wrote in post #14298636
You have the salesmen at best buy. Here is a 18mp t3i or here is the Nikon with 24 mp. People will ask what's the difference? Salesmen replies more mega pixel the better quality. Case closed.

Pretty spot on here. I was looking at some stuff the other day at a Best Buy and heard an exchange very similar to this. Customers go into those places to buy megapixels a good majority of the time.

What? So Captain Naive buys a Nikon instead of a Canon to flick on green box mode, permanently attach a kit lens to it and act as though he is better than regular iPhone/Instagram users because his photographs post processed with the same 4 hipster filters are bigger than iPhone photographs post processed with the same 4 hipster filters.

And then they'll impress their friends with 500 pictures of out of focus "bokeh" and mugs of coffee.

djentley wrote in post #14302955
What? So Captain Naive buys a Nikon instead of a Canon to flick on green box mode, permanently attach a kit lens to it and act as though he is better than regular iPhone/Instagram users because his photographs post processed with the same 4 hipster filters are bigger than iPhone photographs post processed with the same 4 hipster filters.

And then they'll impress their friends with 500 pictures of out of focus "bokeh" and mugs of coffee.

no because if there the same price and the guy in blue shirt says it has more mega pixels which obviously means better quality cause he noes thing better which one is the consumer going to take?

rick_reno wrote in post #14298417
MP's sell cameras, Canon needs to realize that.

Canon will make up for the profit loss through their point and shoot cameras. I'm sure we'll see something new eventually, but one camera with higher megapixels isn't going to put much pressure on Canon. If this was the case, Nikon would have had huge profit loss, because Canon (in the recent past) has had a much higher megapixel count in their cameras.