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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CAU" data-source="post: 1332193" data-attributes="member: 55324">I'm not familiar with the technology of the D3, but wouldn't this just be the same thing as cropping the central 10-12 MP of the original 21 MP, i.e. not a too special upgrade at all (as the same can be done in PP to images from all cameras)? Of course the smaller DX mode pictures would take less storage space and enable slightly faster shooting (as the camera doesn't need to process as many pixels), but the quality of the image would remain the same. DPReview says this:"...whether used in DX crop mode or full frame (for cropping later)..." <a href="http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/NikonD3/page34.asp" target="_blank">http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/NikonD3/page34.asp</a>Shooting with a FF sensor and a DX format lens could be compared to digiscoping with a setup that produces vignetting. In this case the camera (the D3) just automatically crops the image so that the vignetting disappears, but you end up with an image that has fewer pixels.</blockquote>