Digital BW, The Print

I tend to agree--but what do I know LOL??!?  I do follow this pretty closely though.  

And--I'm going to do something I said I wasn't--going to buy a 20D for now, relegate my 10D to backup and give my D60 to my husband (and find a 'donor' for the still nice D30).  The 1DsMkII is way out of my ballpark--and I'm not even going to consider that it will be affordable in the anywhere near future.  Besides, I'd rather put that money towards an Epson 4000.  I've missed the boat on selling my previous body several times to get the maximum for it because I've always needed the camera for my soon to come parttime commercial shoots.  This time--I have the 10D which is still a lovely camera and will sell it or the 20D just as soon as I learn a bit about the next generation.  In the meantime I plan to buy the 10-22 and give up my bias against EF-S lenses because I DO think that Canon is rethinking its gameplan for size, sensor size.  

Diane
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Clayton Jones 
  To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 5:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [Digital BW] Optimum sensor size (was www.OpenRAW.org ...)



  Steve,

  >But doesn't greater dynamic range require, all else being equal, a 
  >larger pixel?

  No, it doesn't.  That's what everyone assumed up until this year's
  digicams hit the market.  The canon G6 has 7mp on a 1/8 chip, and has
  lower noise and greater dynamic range than the G5 with 5mp on the same
  size chip (it actually has lower noise and DR than my pro-1 with 8mp
  on a 2/3 chip-it's amazing).  That was the crux of Michael Johnston's
  column on the subject on the Lum. Lndscp web site awhile back, where
  he put forth convincing reasons for full frame sensors not becoming
  the standard.   Everything is trending smaller, not bigger.  They keep
  improving on it and nobody knows what the limits are yet.  All the old
  wisdom is up for grabs right now.

  Regards,
  Clayton



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