Originally posted by: jpeyton
18MP APS-C?
Silly Canon, I thought they learned their lesson already.
Not this stuff again . 18mp on an aps-c sensor is not an unreasonably high pixel density. Period.
Assuming the lenses have the quality to provide the image, a quality 18mp sensor will provide a more detailed image than a 10mp one.
More megapixels is not necessarily a bad thing, folks. The 50d got attacked because of a horrid dpreview that used adobe camera raw. The fact is that at an equal print size a 50d picture is never worse than a 40d one as far as noise lol.
And please don't bring up the circle of confusion and diffraction as a reason for keeping MP low. For a given f/stop a higher mp sensor of equal quality will not ever resolve less detail.
If this thing really is 18mp and Canon can keep the high iso performance as good as the Rebel T1i then we have a huge winner image quality wise (as for features we hafta hope Canon doesn't cripple it in some way to protect the 1d line, ugh lol).
Sadly though I doubt it will have the cool new pro feature from the d300s, the ability to use two memory cards. We'll see though. (I almost always shoot raw+jpeg...ability to pump raw files to cf and jpegs to sd would kick so much ass lol).