Close up of Northern Shoveler.
70% of original 20mp D500 frame.
I know the new mirror mega pixel cameras are pretty cool,
but I guess I wonder what you get for the 61 mp or whatever
you would not get here?
Love this Dan, not often you can get this close and personal with a shoveler where I live. Great light which has made the iridescence sing. If you have a bit more space in front od the bird I think that would help.
Regards the high MP cameras - and this is only my opinion, not scientific - then I think they are great for cropping and printing large, but not too noticeable on a fairly full frame image on most monitors.
Awesome tight view of this bird. I would take a bit off the RHS to bring the eye back in the frame. Amazing you got this close. For most of my work, I'm pretty happy with ~20 MP and when I print large I'm happy with the results, but I don't do big landscapes etc that maybe 60+ MP is good for. Mostly I don't want to deal with the storage both in cards and hard drives the big files require. Who knows, probably in 10 years we'll be shooting a 200 MP camera and won't think twice about it. Whatever the case, the details here are great. Greens are great too. TFS