richard plumb
Distinguished Member
My next camera is likely to be a Canon 7D or maybe a 5DII (I tend towards the 7D but I need to try out a 5D first)
But I don't need 18 or 24 megapixels. I'll just end up with massive files that are unwieldy. I tend to only print at 6x4 for albums and 10x8ish for framed stuff.
I've read about things like sRAW that in theory can use groups of pixels to act like 'big' pixels, reducing noise overall. So in theory instead of 24mp you have a 12 or even 6mp image
Does this work in real life? Can you do this in an external editor if the camera doesn't support it directly? Do any of you resize your edited images to make them easier to handle (presumably you keep the originals somewhere safe)?
But I don't need 18 or 24 megapixels. I'll just end up with massive files that are unwieldy. I tend to only print at 6x4 for albums and 10x8ish for framed stuff.
I've read about things like sRAW that in theory can use groups of pixels to act like 'big' pixels, reducing noise overall. So in theory instead of 24mp you have a 12 or even 6mp image
Does this work in real life? Can you do this in an external editor if the camera doesn't support it directly? Do any of you resize your edited images to make them easier to handle (presumably you keep the originals somewhere safe)?