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First Take

By Leonard Goh
Dec 5, 2008

Nikon's latest flagship dSLR, the D3x, is one beast of a camera. Its recent standalone announcement puts all the limelight on this 24.5-megapixel full-frame shooter and raises the Japanese company's benchmark for future product development. The high-res images appeal to commercial photographers who need to print large photographs without degradation of fine details, yet at the same time the 5 frames-per-second burst mode makes the shooter suitable for some action shots. There is little competition to the D3x, except for Canon's EOS 1Ds Mark III and Sony's Alpha DSLR-A900 which churn out 21.1- and 24.6-megapixel images, respectively. ...

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drone1212: Hi Leonard, That would definitely be interesting test to watch out for. If DxO's theory has any truth in real ...
gohleonard: Hi Drone, Like you have mentioned, there are many more factors contributing to image quality, such as the image processor, ...
drone1212: Hi Leornard, Thanks for pointing out the DxO report. I read Their mathematical formula saying that higher pixel count improves ...
gohleonard: Hi Drone, You may wish to refer to this story ( asia.cnet.com... ) as to why we incline towards the ...
drone1212: "The pixel pitch for the A900 is 5.9 microns, whereas for the D3x it is smaller at 5.49 microns. ...

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