>>4410418The megapixel myth is the trvth nvke gearfags don't want to hear.
https://kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htmDated info, dated perspective, because technology did improve a lot, but the principle holds true.
What do you get if you upgrade a $1000 a7c to a $3000 a7cr? Minor gains in sharpness while pixel peeping at 200%, aka 100% in a web browser due to the forced 72 ppi, assuming 6000x4000 is the largest image you ever share. When was the last time anyone here shared a 9500x6336 image, non-professionally? If you come from a nice family and your friends have 8k monitors, they can only fit 7680x4320 on the screen at once. Having more than 24mp actually remains pointless, even with a $5000 display. If your friends sit further away from the screen, or you just use a good lens, you could get away with even less.
If you are used to expression resolution in megapixels, fuji cameras have a 2/3s modifier. Bad right? so a 24mp fuji = 16mp. STILL good enough, even for an 8k display, just not ultra crisp wallpaper material.
Upgrading cameras past the last generation of standard, mid range sensors is totally fucking pointless. If camera companies were ran by knowledgeable photographers instead of soulless corpo fucks, they would stop bumping resolution up and start focusing more on dynamic range and global shutter. High megapixel cameras have two applications
1: The full frame MP scam - r5, z7, a7r, s1r bullshit. These don't exist because the megapixels are useful, they exist to enable more psychologically effective product stratification and convince you the features they withheld were withheld because the high mp snapshitter is truly higher end.
2: The medium format niche - 100mp large format sensors finally look a bit better... if you shoot at iso 6400-102400 all day or print yuge.
>BUT WHAT ABOUT CROPPING?Imagine paying thousands extra to not get your shot right in camera. People were shooting snowy owls with 100-400s and 12mp a while ago... man the fuck up.
