>>3460521>MUH X YEARS OLD SENSOR>WHAT...ABOUT...MUH...X YEARS OLD SENSOR!The most ignorant and juvenile complaint you will ever read about any digital camera is "muh X years old sensor!" Sensors do not improve every year. Moore's Law is dead and imaging sensors never tracked Moore's Law any way, not even in the early 2000's, due to additional physical constraints on their development.
Furthermore, in the 2010's sensor improvements have come on one axis but not others. Examples: the A73 brought improved DR and high ISO but not resolution. The D850 brought improved resolution, slightly improved high ISO, but not DR.
Base ISO DR has never moved beyond the range set by Sony's 36mp sensor in the Nikon D800 and Pentax K-1. We've been "stuck" at a max of 14.7 stops for years now. 36mp is shy of the 45/47/50mp resolution monsters on the market, but still considerably more detail than 24mp.
High ISO has barely budged. Honestly, I would rather work with the 36mp RAWs from the K-1 than the A73 at high ISO because I post process everything and you can use NR but you can't add detail. That sensor is also sharper at high ISO and if you sharpen a 24mp sensor to match you amplify the noise. I feel the same way about the A7r series, the D8x0 series, and the Canon 5Ds series. If you go with jpegs straight ooc then you could say some of the 24mp sensors are better at high ISO, but if you post process then resolution is king.
None of this is to shit on the A73, I'm merely using it as an example of one of the newest sensors. Don't judge a camera based on "muh X years old sensor!" like some tech obsessed faggot you never shoots anything. Judge it on what it can do.
