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<blockquote data-quote="Geoffc" data-source="post: 198731" data-attributes="member: 8705">In reality my original point was not really about pixel pitch, it was about pixels actually being used. If you take a D800 and a D7000, they both have a very similar number of pixels covering the DX area of the sensor. If we're being picky the D7000 has the edge as it has more and as such could resolve detail at a more granular level. If you look at the original uncropped image of the bear it was a lot smaller than the DX area so any pixels in the area between DX and FX don't count. It doesn't matter if you shoot a bear in FX mode with lots of space around it as we are throwing all of the space part away when we crop. I'm still waiting for an answer to my question regarding the dimensions of the cropped image. . The DR and colour depth of the D800 is something else and not what I call resolution. Now when I get a bear filling my D800 frame, that's what you call serious resolution.Anyway I think I'll drop this now as I appear to have caused upset by saying the D800 is not the be all and end all when it comes to megapixels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geoffc, post: 198731, member: 8705"] In reality my original point was not really about pixel pitch, it was about pixels actually being used. If you take a D800 and a D7000, they both have a very similar number of pixels covering the DX area of the sensor. If we're being picky the D7000 has the edge as it has more and as such could resolve detail at a more granular level. If you look at the original uncropped image of the bear it was a lot smaller than the DX area so any pixels in the area between DX and FX don't count. It doesn't matter if you shoot a bear in FX mode with lots of space around it as we are throwing all of the space part away when we crop. I'm still waiting for an answer to my question regarding the dimensions of the cropped image. . The DR and colour depth of the D800 is something else and not what I call resolution. Now when I get a bear filling my D800 frame, that's what you call serious resolution. Anyway I think I'll drop this now as I appear to have caused upset by saying the D800 is not the be all and end all when it comes to megapixels. [/QUOTE]

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