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RX-100 & Nex-7 Combined?

06/08/12 15:30

How many pixels do you want?

I've been looking at the new little RX-100 camera. So far nothing but rave reviews. You can get one here if you like. Amazon RX-100 It seems to me like Sony has done something amazing here with this little 1" sensor. It's a 20 megapixel or 13.2x8.8mm sensor and APS=C sensor is right around 23x15.2 or so. Now the RX-100 does a pretty good job at higher ISO levels especially considering how small the pixels physically are. So here's my thought. Why not take this sensor and scale it up to be the Nex-9 Sensor. They could even use pixel binning (Combining Pixels into one) to help with higher ISO levels giving us cleaner smaller resolution images. So what happens if we take the specs of the RX-100 and scale it up?

Here's the math part.

RX-100 is 5472x3648 or 5472 pixels on the 13.2mm side of the sensor about 414 pixels per millimeter. If we take an APS-C Sensor and do the math 23.5mm times 414 is 9729 on the long side and 414 times 15.2 is 6292 on the short side. making for a grand total of just over 61 megapixels. Would it be a low light genius? Not likely although pixel binning is showing great possibilities to help with this. It would be fantastic as a landscape, or advertising camera. Even a high end portrait camera. For me, I'd love it. I keep the ISO as low as possible. With the success of the ultra resolution of the D800 I think something like this would sell. I know I'd buy one.

Note: I know you're curious a full frame 24x36mm sensor would work out to be 14904x9936 or 148 Megapixels. I know resolution isn't by an means what makes an image or a camera. I tend to print very large prints and I would certainly have fun with such a camera as the one described here.

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