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<blockquote data-quote="Geoffc" data-source="post: 198782" data-attributes="member: 8705">Silven,I'm glad I haven't upset you as that was not my intention. Can I make a few points. Firstly your original post was talking resolution not IQ. This has crept in during the posts. I may have been guilty of referring to it as well.Secondly I referred to the D7000 not D7100 in my original post very deliberately due to the pixel density similarity. Thirdly the FX sensor may be 2.35 times larger but you're only using a teeny bit of it in your bear pic. For example if you employ 5sq mm of your FX sensor for the bear and 5 sq mm of the D7000 sensor you have about the same number of pixels/resolution. Also a lot of the D800 high IQ scores are as a result of down sampling for comparative tests not just because it has wonderful pixel technology. The 800 has pixels in abundance and noise is lost in this process.I'm going to be as good as my word and do a proper documented test that will allow everyone to objectively decide what they think the answer is. Maybe I'm just not being clear enough in my explainations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geoffc, post: 198782, member: 8705"] Silven, I'm glad I haven't upset you as that was not my intention. Can I make a few points. Firstly your original post was talking resolution not IQ. This has crept in during the posts. I may have been guilty of referring to it as well. Secondly I referred to the D7000 not D7100 in my original post very deliberately due to the pixel density similarity. Thirdly the FX sensor may be 2.35 times larger but you're only using a teeny bit of it in your bear pic. For example if you employ 5sq mm of your FX sensor for the bear and 5 sq mm of the D7000 sensor you have about the same number of pixels/resolution. Also a lot of the D800 high IQ scores are as a result of down sampling for comparative tests not just because it has wonderful pixel technology. The 800 has pixels in abundance and noise is lost in this process. I'm going to be as good as my word and do a proper documented test that will allow everyone to objectively decide what they think the answer is. Maybe I'm just not being clear enough in my explainations. [/QUOTE]

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