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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pe'rigin" data-source="post: 1715039" data-attributes="member: 48320">A different take on this thread. Everybody’s thinking of bigger lenses, to increase the enlargement capabilities. Very expensive beasts, which are usually out of the reach of most people’s budget.What about a better sensor?If we take a D3, with a standard 50mm lens, that gives us approximately at high resolution with the correct enlargement/resolution a 36cm x 24cm image, (give or take 25% enlargement). Pretty good if close to the subject.The present sensors are really at the end of the road as far as we can push them, putting more pixels on them only causes more problems with quality control, colour and reproduction.We need a new sensor that doubles in mega ‘pixels’ (or a newer technology) without all the inherit problems which occur with the present batch, your enlargement capabilities doubles, your 50mm becomes a 100mm and so on.Images that replicated those of film, now that would be advancement, a big plus for the consumer would be that you’ll keep hold of the camera for a longer period of time before thinking of upgrading, not really in Nikon or Canon’s interest as a marketing strategy.</blockquote>