6MP sensor max pre 2008 DSLR

Unfocussed Mike said

Lightingman said

I remember (from quite a while ago) when Contax brought out their FULL FRAME DSLR it had a resolution of 6Mp, Contax argued it was the maximum effective resolution needed to fall within the required Nyquist sampling frequency.

To be fair, it took them so long to get that camera from the drawing board to the shops that it's entirely possible fundamental physics changed in the interim!

Yes, the speed of light slowed in the process it took so long. I think the company had already started to be in financial difficulties and the budgets for R+D and production were petering out.

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I air my venerable Canon EOS 1D MkII from time to time.

Orson Carter said

Pick anything from my portfolio. My entire kit consists of two 450D bodies, a kit zoom and a nifty fifty. Never had any other kit. 

that's impressive, but your camera has the same issue as Huw's 8MP, regarding clothing :-)

Pixelcomposer said

If I did a side by side comparison between the Pentax D200 and the Nikon D5 in the studio, then I am sure the Pentax D200 would get some reasonable images. But anything outside this controlled environment other than Mediterranean light would likely result with poor images. It is fun comparing though. 

Mediterranean Light, it sounds so artistic how could that not create something magical. I'm stealing your phrase to try and evoke some passion into our next shoot :-)

RobertP said

Not quite like for like but my Canon 50D with the highly regarded (at the time) ef-s 17-55 f2.8 lens comfortably outperformed my Canon 350D with the original version of the ef-s 18-55 kit lens. Also more and better pixels; 15mpix vs 8mpix; and the 50D has a better autofocus system.

The first 7 pictures on my portfolio are from the 50D.

Well the 50D is doing a great job, thanks for sharing

Unfocussed Mike said

I think the only "people photography" stuff I did with it was family and some gig work so I am not going to post it (though one of my favourite photos is still a photo I took with it of my then eighty-year-old father). 

Family member Photos are just the best, families with photographers in them are so lucky. My husband's father who was 91 this year has his father's photo album asked us to digitise them so he could have them on his iPhone.

Pete Naples said

I air my venerable Canon EOS 1D MkII from time to time.

Please post a link when you air it next time :-)

Not many examples on my port, but this:

was taken on a 6MP D70s

Paul Montgomery said

Not many examples on my port, but this:

was taken on a 6MP D70s

Edit - I recently had to retire this camera as it came down with the dreaded ‘cha’ error…

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Paul Montgomery said

Paul Montgomery said

Not many examples on my port, but this:

was taken on a 6MP D70s

Edit - I recently had to retire this camera as it came down with the dreaded ‘cha’ error…

Lovely image, I remember my husband had the CHA error years and years ago. I asked him and he said he formatted the card in windows and that should have fixed it according to some forums, but didn't so he changed the card and it worked again.

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tandi said

Orson Carter said

Pick anything from my portfolio. My entire kit consists of two 450D bodies, a kit zoom and a nifty fifty. Never had any other kit. 

...that's impressive, but your camera has the same issue as Huw's 8MP, regarding clothing :-)

They're ancient, low-spec cameras. They don't have an Auto CFHTT setting.

:)   

Orson Carter said

They're ancient, low-spec cameras. They don't have an Auto CFHTT setting.

:)   

Auto CFHTT setting? 

photofervor said

I have about 16 older digital cameras like

the legendary 1995 Casio QV-10A 0.07Mp the first consumer digital camera to have an LCD screen for live view a rotating lens for selfies and internal image storage

plus and from the same 1995 the first Nikon E2 digital DSLR (as well as an identical Fujix 505) both of which have 1.3Mp and were used professionally and I've taken images with them. Interestingly despite their small 2/3" sensors they acted as a full frame camera in that a 50mm lens gave you a 50mm field of view. They use PCMCIA cards

Other notables and working today:

1996: Sony Cybershot DSC-F1 - 0.33Mp - Sony's first digital camera similar to Casio but much better built and with a built in flash

1997: Somy MVC FD200 Mavica - 0.33Mp unique in storing images on a floppy disc (and later CDs) a massive success for Sony. 

1999: Nikon D! (I have the D1X) 2.62 Mp first wholly Nikon digital DSLR and aimed at professional market

2000: Canon D30 - 3Mp - their first home grown digital DSLR - and the first CMOS rather than a CCD sensor.

2000: Fujifilm FinePix S1 Pro - ostensibly 3Mp but with some technical wizardry from what was said to be a Super CCD 6Mp I have the later S3 Pro.

Beyond 2000 the race (like the wild west) was on for better cameras:

Classics that I have include:

2004: Konica Minolta - 8Mp first with an anti-shake steady shot mechanism

2005: Nikon D200 - 10.2 Mp APS-C a superbly built 'modern' DSLR produces wonderful images from its CCD sensor and so cheap today

2005: Canon EOS 5D - 'The Classic' 12.8Mp - affordable full frame DSLR created a storm of interest and still today many commend its imagery and colour science sme even remarking 'The Greatest Digita; Camera of All Time'

2006: Sony's A100 - 10.2Mp CCD sensor - first Sony digital DSLR successor to Konica Minolta DSLR models with eye start and vibrating dust-off sensor

2007/8: Nikon D3 and D700 (I have)  - 12.1Mp - Nikons first Full Frame DSLR baby brother of earlier professional D3 a heavy but beautiful camera revered today because of its unique sensor purportedly made by Panasonic

2008: Panasonic Lumix G! - 12Mp - first digital mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera adhering to Micro Four Thirds with EVF with automatic face detection/AF tracking later replaced by the G2 with video incorporated.

2011: Sony SLT-A65 - 24Mp - 10fps - feels very plasticky not really a mirrorless as mirror is translucent.

My faves are the Nikon D-200, D-700 and the Canon Classic all produce wonderful colour rendering and are quite useable today. Taking the 1.72Kg Fujix or Nikon E2 out gets lots of questions.

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wow you've really had some equipment, those 0.33MP photos must have been dynamite when it came to printing :-)

Kevin Connery said

I have a folder of images from a 6.3 megapixel 2002 Canon D60 that hold up just fine technically (albeit not so much artistically). But they're all at ISO 100, as ISO 200+ in that camera was a golf-ball sized noise generator. And mostly studio-lit, to control the contrast/dynamic range. But that's what I typically shot then--and still shoot now. I sold a number of 20x30" portraits taken with that camera.

This is a typical 20-year old unretouched example: 

I'd definitely spring for a newer camera given the limitations, but if you only have a few dozen dollars/pounds, it's perfectly usable for many purposes even today. (And close-to-or-actually-useless for others--sports and wildlife due to AF limitations; or low-light due to ISO noise performance, for example.)

 

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I love the wedding dress and B&W with the lady and short 20's bob

tandi said

Orson Carter said

They're ancient, low-spec cameras. They don't have an Auto CFHTT setting.

:)   

Auto CFHTT setting? 

Covered From Head To Toe  :) :) :) 

Orson Carter said

tandi said

Orson Carter said

They're ancient, low-spec cameras. They don't have an Auto CFHTT setting.

:)   

Auto CFHTT setting? 

Covered From Head To Toe  :) :) :) 

Love it, I'm stealing that phrase too :-)

I have several Nikon D 1 and D1x cameras but also D2h and D2x cameras all of which can take a good image, it not about the camera it is about the model, lighting and location and a bit of luck

my newest camera is a Nikon D800  but on a shoot I often take one of the older cameras as well, my favorit camera is a Nikon D4, if I am shooting with my own lights then it is Bowens  most of which are as old as the cameras .