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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;semibovinian, post: 2664375, member: 76467&quot;]I wouldn&#039;t avoid cameras with smaller pixel pitches, as long as they&#039;re at least APS-sized and as long as the readout noise and well capacity scale down in proportion to the pixel area.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to capture everything the sensor can record, you need to shoot at the DLA or wider.&nbsp; My camera (Canon T6s) has 3.72 micron pixels with a DLA of 5.6, but the AA filter limits the maximum resolution to about&nbsp; 3 pixels per line pair, so maybe f/8 is good enough?</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, if you want to get all the resolution that a given lens provides, you&#039;d need to oversample the image with a sensor with small pixels.&nbsp; Over at the other coin forum, there were some lens tests using USAF 1951 test charts where you could see that many (but not all) macro/enlarging lenses shooting at 1x could significantly outresolve the T6s sensor .&nbsp; A 10X microscope objective was used to project the areal image from the lens onto the sensor, greatly reducing the effects of pixel size. </p><p><br /></p><p>There was also a test that showed that even the 10X Mitutoyo objective, with a sensor-side effective f-ratio of 15-18, could benefit somewhat from pixels smaller the 3.72 microns of the T6s.&nbsp; This test used a 2X teleconverter to magnify the image as seen by the sensor.&nbsp; It&#039;s also true that the 10X Mitutoyo doesn&#039;t max out the T6s sensor resolution.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, Rik Littlefield over at Photomacrography.net did some tests on a 135mm Olympus lens at f/11, and showed it outresolved a DSLR sensor.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, there are disadvantages to small pixels -- the images take more disk space, and could be noisier if you do pixel peeping (because of the smaller well size and increased photon accumulation noise).&nbsp; Also, if you want to get the best images the sensor can capture, you may need to resort to stacking more often.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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