Interesting find Greg, people are rarely going to want to blow up the photos larger than that anyway!

i've seen stunning photographs taken on a d30 (3mp canon dslr) blown up to A0.

whats far more important is something called pixel pitch( ie how close together the sensors are), if you cram 10 million pixels on a tiny little chip quality the quality will be far less than 6 million pixels on a bigger sensor.

the other huge factor that isn't considered by a lot of people is lens quality. put a s**t bit of glass on the front of your shiny new DSLR and it'll produce s**t results.

those are awsome really clear!
greg

All about pixel pitch and the sensor technology itself of course, just common sense

I saw some lab tests a little while back at ST Microelectronics (who make the CMOS's for camera phones etc.) on the CMOS sensors and it was interesting at least to see the tests... but realistically there's only so much a sensor that tiny can do

At work we use a variety of D2Hs and D2Xs (and others, 1DS etc.), the D2Hs having a 4 megapixel JFET LBCAST sensor and the D2X using a 12.4 megapixel CMOS. Realistically, they both dump out very similar pictures, but the D2H has the added advantage of having smaller files to work with, which is a huge bonus when doing a lot of post-pro

http://www.instat.com/press.asp?ID=1772&sku=IN0602968MI

Vast majority of camera phones use CMOS sensors, although you only see them in mid-high range DSLRs, their use in scientific applications and very small sensor cameras are extremely widespread over CCDs (they are more common in camera phones and smaller cameras primarily due to their lower power consumption over CCDs).

CCDs are only more common in the other full size stills cameras and camcorders

Interesting, but I don't believe the story - only 1 person did it correctly?? Surely, by the law of averages, 1 in 6 people should get that right, just by guessing! there are only 6 possible order combinations with 3 images. Dubious, to say the least!

I do think the idea has some merit though - I'm going for the EOS 1d I think because of the frame rates, I'm not too worried about the low MP value - I've seen some shots with it and it looks crisp enough for my use!