DP Review gives the following specs for the new Nikon D7100.
I have added the specs for the Nikon D600.
Apart from sensor size specs are identical.
Any way of prejudging which camera gives better image quality?
Nikon D7100 (Nikon D600)
Max resolution 6000 x 4000 (6,016 a 4,016)
Effective pixels 24.1 megapixels (24.3 million)
Sensor photo detectors 24.7 megapixels (24.7 million)
Sensor size APS-C 23.5 x 15.6 mm (35.9 x 24.0 mm)
Sensor type CMOS (CMOS)
Can image quality differences be expected?
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Can image quality differences be expected?
NU.
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student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
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I assume you're shooting the same size subject field and that you can provide adequate light to run both sensors at base ISO.
Then the larger sensor will have less noise and better shadow detail due to larger capacity photosites.
The larger sensor may also have a slight advantage in sharpness, but this depends on having optics that match well to the larger sensor. (With the same lens, the larger sensor runs at higher magnification. This puts the lens a little closer to the subject, which gives it a little larger subject-side NA.)
For the work I see you posting, I would expect little if any visible difference.
--Rik
Then the larger sensor will have less noise and better shadow detail due to larger capacity photosites.
The larger sensor may also have a slight advantage in sharpness, but this depends on having optics that match well to the larger sensor. (With the same lens, the larger sensor runs at higher magnification. This puts the lens a little closer to the subject, which gives it a little larger subject-side NA.)
For the work I see you posting, I would expect little if any visible difference.
--Rik
Thanks Rik.
I do a lot of bug photos in the field ( in warmer weather!) using a Nikon 200 mm AF Micro - but don't post these images here. At a max of 1: I don't call them macro. So perhaps I should use my D600 rather than a D7100, although the D7100 doesn't have an AA filter.
I do a lot of bug photos in the field ( in warmer weather!) using a Nikon 200 mm AF Micro - but don't post these images here. At a max of 1: I don't call them macro. So perhaps I should use my D600 rather than a D7100, although the D7100 doesn't have an AA filter.
NU.
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
student of entomology
Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
Nikon camera, lenses and objectives
Olympus microscope and objectives
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This raises another issue. 1:1 on the D7100 is 23.5 mm wide, but on the D600 it's 35.9 mm wide. For subjects that naturally frame between those two sizes, you'll place more pixels across the subject by using the D7100 and setting the lens to whatever magnification fills the frame.NikonUser wrote:Thanks Rik.
I do a lot of bug photos in the field ( in warmer weather!) using a Nikon 200 mm AF Micro - but don't post these images here. At a max of 1: I don't call them macro.
--Rik
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I would suggest that that is a signifcant loss to this forum. I, for one, would love to see them, not least because I am mainly a field photographer.NikonUser wrote:I do a lot of bug photos in the field ( in warmer weather!) using a Nikon 200 mm AF Micro - but don't post these images here. At a max of 1: I don't call them macro.
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