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<blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 136854" data-attributes="member: 12496">Maybe not (in spades).Are you discussing film or digital?&nbsp;&nbsp; You mention large film having more resolution.&nbsp; But if it is the same type of film, of course it doesn't, it's the same film.&nbsp; But prints from large negatives certainly do suffer less enlargement, and the lower enlargement degree certainly is a plus factor.In digital, if both FX and DX have 20 pixels, again, that is again the same resolution.&nbsp;&nbsp; FX sensors are 1.5x larger, so again, they do suffer only 0.67 the enlargement to print size. Which is far from the same extreme degree as 4x5 inch film being so much larger than 35mm, but there is mild degree.&nbsp; But at 20 megapixels, both are already larger (more pixels) than we typically need. An 8x10 inch print only needs 7 megapixels, at most.Both the D600 and D7100 have 24 megapixels.&nbsp; But the D800 has 36, which is not a huge difference, but resolution certainly is impressive.&nbsp; We would expect more noise, yet its smaller pixels still seem to handily win the DxO tests, over either size of 24 megapixels.&nbsp;&nbsp; So obviously, there are also other factors, it is not a simple formula. The newness of the sensor design is a big factor.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="WayneF, post: 136854, member: 12496"] Maybe not (in spades). Are you discussing film or digital? You mention large film having more resolution. But if it is the same type of film, of course it doesn't, it's the same film. But prints from large negatives certainly do suffer less enlargement, and the lower enlargement degree certainly is a plus factor. In digital, if both FX and DX have 20 pixels, again, that is again the same resolution. FX sensors are 1.5x larger, so again, they do suffer only 0.67 the enlargement to print size. Which is far from the same extreme degree as 4x5 inch film being so much larger than 35mm, but there is mild degree. But at 20 megapixels, both are already larger (more pixels) than we typically need. An 8x10 inch print only needs 7 megapixels, at most. Both the D600 and D7100 have 24 megapixels. But the D800 has 36, which is not a huge difference, but resolution certainly is impressive. We would expect more noise, yet its smaller pixels still seem to handily win the DxO tests, over either size of 24 megapixels. So obviously, there are also other factors, it is not a simple formula. The newness of the sensor design is a big factor. [/QUOTE]

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