A800 Rumor

[A1000]

CleraVid 50 MP is effective 100 MP

Sooner than you can imagine

[bakubo]

That's what I want is an expensive 50MP when the most pixels I ever need or most anyone else will ever need is about 16MP. 48MP is native 20 x 27 @ 300 DPI unframed and unmatted! Honestly, how many semi-pros and advanced amateurs are hanging those? Alamy standard is basically 11 x 17 @ 300 DPI.... BTW, How many of those 20 x 27 inch 35mm film prints do you have hanging around, Henry?

In an earlier life I had about 50 matted and framed prints on the wall -- all made from 35mm slides/negatives (old-style optical prints since this was in the early to mid 1990s and before scanning). In a later life in a different house and a different state I had about the same number of prints on the wall, but some of those were made from scanning slides/negatives. In a condo I still own, but don't live in, I have about 20 prints on the wall -- all made from 6mp digital cameras or scanned slides/negatives. The largest are 12x18 inches. These days my wife and I live a nomad lifestyle so prints and lots of possessions just don't work.

I like the ability to crop when necessary and if the mp and the lens quality allows it then that is fine with me. If not for cropping then the A700 and 12mp is usually just fine for me. If digital cameras stopped at 12mp then I would be fine with it, but there is no sign that is going to happen though since even on APS-C there are already 14 and 15mp bodies.

Please...We need work on the system, features, and performance..not more MP crammed on small noisy sensors!

Agreed. Improve it all! Having said that, except for a few relatively minor firmware bugs (or brain dead design), I am pretty happy with the features, performance, etc. on the A700. The A700 is the first DSLR I have owned that I could say that about. Although not a real big thing for me, I wouldn't mind having a pretty good LV like in the A300/A350 if the OVF was not compromised much.

[bfitzgerald]

I remember someone once said being an early adopter was good..

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/CanonEOS1D/page2.asp" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Canon-EOS-1D-Came ... 240%3A1318" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Time is a great wallet healer!

[bakubo]

A couple of golden oldies...

http://www.nikonweb.com/paris2005/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Funny. That first 2005 photo on that page is similar to my 2001 photo on the Pont Alexandre III in Paris:



I need to go back to the original film scan and reprocess this. I did this back in 2001 when I had a less experience with digital processing.