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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BackdoorArts" data-source="post: 353267" data-attributes="member: 9240">What you guys are missing is the idea of the cost of the FX sensor.  The difference between a 24MP DX and a 24MP FX isn't just bigger pixel size.  If it was easy to make a low cost, high IQ FX camera then someone would have put it out a while a go.  You want a low cost landscaper's camera?  Get the D7100.  You're not going to get cheaper without an OLPF.  Pixel size is too big on the 24MP FX's and dealing with moire at that pixel size is a nightmare, so you have to get up to the 36MP's of the D800 and there goes your low cost.  Otherwise, get a used D600 and the 24-85mm (you did a lot of math there to replicate a low cost FX lens they already make), which you can probably find for less than the price of a D7100 if you look hard enough (I did).</blockquote>