I was fascinated by Alan's thoughts that 6mp was perfectly adequate and in many respects I agree. Here are a couple of images taken on my D60, which was a couple of years before Alan's 10D.
Mini 011b by colin cross, on Flickr
YSky 03d by colin cross, on Flickr
The first is my Mini, which I still own and the second is the Black Arrows, the lesser known Navy acrobatic display team. From these images, it is quite apparent that 6mp is perfectly adequate and indeed, I had many images published nationally using this camera.
However, for publication they wanted Jpegs, so that 6mp ended up between 3 and 4mp and if you needed to crop the image, that would drag it down even more. Now even that was fine as long as there was good light and you could keep the ISO down to ISO100, or ISO200. You dare not go to ISO400 or above as that was a quality killer - grain (digital noise) the size of lentils!
So, while I look back at my D30 and D60 with a certain amount of nostalgia and fondness, you had to work within its limitations to get the best out of it and effectively that meant no cropping and no poor light. To get the same images now, I don't have to work so hard as 20mp plus allows me to crop ti suit the image and with wildlife, I often have to crop a lot. Also, I don't have to be fearful about using high ISO in poor light and regularly use ISO3200 and ISO6400.
Mini 011b by colin cross, on Flickr
YSky 03d by colin cross, on Flickr
The first is my Mini, which I still own and the second is the Black Arrows, the lesser known Navy acrobatic display team. From these images, it is quite apparent that 6mp is perfectly adequate and indeed, I had many images published nationally using this camera.
However, for publication they wanted Jpegs, so that 6mp ended up between 3 and 4mp and if you needed to crop the image, that would drag it down even more. Now even that was fine as long as there was good light and you could keep the ISO down to ISO100, or ISO200. You dare not go to ISO400 or above as that was a quality killer - grain (digital noise) the size of lentils!
So, while I look back at my D30 and D60 with a certain amount of nostalgia and fondness, you had to work within its limitations to get the best out of it and effectively that meant no cropping and no poor light. To get the same images now, I don't have to work so hard as 20mp plus allows me to crop ti suit the image and with wildlife, I often have to crop a lot. Also, I don't have to be fearful about using high ISO in poor light and regularly use ISO3200 and ISO6400.
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