ISO or MP?

[Izzy]

Which would you rather have? More mexapixels or better ISO performance?

[autofocus]

I weigh in favor of ISO performance

[RichardTaylor]

Both.
+smile

However for most of the shooting I do and for the type of publication I do (no more then 10x8' usually) I will go for better high ISO performance.

[nickbedford]

ISO sensitivity any day. 10 mega pixels of pure awesome verse 20mp of crap. I know which one I'd choose.

[ravncat]

I abstain and vote for more dynamic range.

[3bayjunkie]

iso for sure. id rather have a 10mp with excellent ISO than a 20mp with only average ISO

[ceremus]

Dear Camera-Manufacturing-Gods, for the love of all that is holy, please stop the MP madness, k thx bi

Originally Posted by ravncat

I abstain and vote for more dynamic range.

Soo... medium format / film?

[ravncat]

Originally Posted by ceremus

Soo... medium format / film?

or Improved sensor tech. There have been advances in it from the early sensors. I suppose Medium / Large format would be the immediate ticket.

[inkista]

I want more resolution. I'm a data junkie. You can always throw data away if you don't need it. Getting more when you don't have it is less of a possibility. When I shot 35mm, I wanted to shoot medium and large format. That still applies for me in digital. Having 24MP with my 5Dii utterly rocks. Hard drives are cheap.

I was happy with film in isos 60-1000. I really don't need iso setting one kazillion at the expense of low iso performance (which is kind of what we're getting these days). I'd also vote for more dynamic range. I don't mind the megapixel race, I think we've still got some elbow room there in APS-C and full-frame land (although, yes, we've hit the limits on 1/2.3" sensors). But the high iso thing is getting ridiculous. How often do you need to shoot at iso 25,600? And are you happy with the fact that iso 100 is looking more crappy because of it? The iso 100 and dynamic range on my 50D is nowhere near as nice as the iso 100 and DR I had on my old XT. Having iso 3200 is nice, but the main reason I like my 50D over the XT, sensor-wise, is the higher resolution.

[ceremus]

If we're talking in terms of APC or full frame sensor real estate, aren't dynamic range and MP resolution going to be pretty closely related, if not inversely linear?