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<p>[QUOTE="NorthKorea, post: 1871260, member: 29643"]Umm, for the record... no photographer would recommend a $900 camera body and a $500 lens. If you're buying a $500 Micro-Nikkor macro lens, you're likely dealing with a $250-$350 Nikon D-body camera. If you're buying a low-end full frame $900 body, you'd likely be buying $2000+ pro lenses.</p><p><br /></p><p>Beyond that, the MP value on the sensor is deceptive. As Books stated, a larger sensor with less MP will (assuming we're not talking some ridiculous scenario like a 20MP 10mmx10mm sensor going against a 400k 11mmx11mm sensor) produce better images, since the size of the pixel is going to be larger. The reasoning is this:</p><p><br /></p><p>Let's say you have a pixel the size of a grain of sand vs a pixel the size of a golf ball. It will take many of the sand sized pixels to generate the same information that is captured by the one golf ball pixel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="NorthKorea, post: 1871260, member: 29643"]Umm, for the record... no photographer would recommend a $900 camera body and a $500 lens. If you're buying a $500 Micro-Nikkor macro lens, you're likely dealing with a $250-$350 Nikon D-body camera. If you're buying a low-end full frame $900 body, you'd likely be buying $2000+ pro lenses. Beyond that, the MP value on the sensor is deceptive. As Books stated, a larger sensor with less MP will (assuming we're not talking some ridiculous scenario like a 20MP 10mmx10mm sensor going against a 400k 11mmx11mm sensor) produce better images, since the size of the pixel is going to be larger. The reasoning is this: Let's say you have a pixel the size of a grain of sand vs a pixel the size of a golf ball. It will take many of the sand sized pixels to generate the same information that is captured by the one golf ball pixel.[/QUOTE]
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