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Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios
Sensor size has nothing to do with the output of film. Theyre totally dependent. Most people judge a low-iso frame of film (or a slide) to be anywhere between 15 and 25 megapixels: You can get that in a T1i, which is a crop-body. The only way the sensor size affects images is with noise levels (pixel density) and with the focal length of lenses (no crop factor with full-frame sensors).
To be honest, I think youre a little confused about the ways in which dSLRs and film SLRs are similar or different. You can compare the two, but there are so many differences in the core elements that its very hard to do with something like this. Just accept that digital is different and then go from there.
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That's the first I've heard that a 15mp camera is equivalent to a good slide film (Velvia for example) If that's the case then I'm not going to beat myself up over the differences between 15-25mp. I've read in a few places (I can't find the links now) that until you get into the ~25 mp range then your image quality isn't close to that of film...I guess that's where my main question comes from.
I don't think I'm confused - I certainly know that there are differences between film and digital and I've accepted those differences. I was mainly wondering why Nikon would make a full frame camera that wasn't 25 mp (assuming, at least in my mind, that it needed to be 25 mp to match film) - that's all.