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Just an aside...
I'm no photographer by any stretch. My OM-1 and I have pulled off some remarkable stuff about once in every third roll, which means in it's lifetime I will have spent more to get awesome results that I probably would have had I gone digital long ago. That having been said...

Shooting pictures as stand alone images has become a thing of the past in the professional market. While I totally agree with Olympus in so far as the average consumer goes, when It comes to shooting today so little has to do with the composition of the shot anymore. The few digital cameras I end up dealing with have a much higher pixel count on the sensor than I would ever need were I simply heading over to the local Kiosk and printing 3x5s to share with my friends and family.

12MP is fine for this type of use, at it's extreme, but I think many of us have come to realize that, when we see a photo in the newspaper or magazine, that it was not composed as seen. The higher pixel count cameras excel at permitting re-framing of the composition, cropping the portion which makes the better picture. Not that I feel that more than 12MP would help most people in this, it's just that I think there will always be a market for the larger count for those who have learned to shoot for later cropping.

Thank you for the tip on using curves, very useful. Now I'm going to end up spending the rest of my morning dragging images in and out of Photoshop...*snicker*
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I agree  nucrash | 03/06/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  No More Microsoft Software Ever! | 03/06/09
I agree, but am not optimistic  voyager529 | 03/06/09
How little you know about "good old" 35mm film  Unix Pimp | 03/06/09
My point exactly.  No More Microsoft Software Ever! | 03/06/09
You're right, I've never shot "real photos" on 35mm  voyager529 | 03/06/09
How little you know about film.  Bruizer | 03/09/09
slide film  jpouchet | 03/09/09
Who said anything about negative print film?  Bruizer | 03/09/09
Digital here to stay  mggordon | 03/09/09
My first instinct was right then.  Bruizer | 03/09/09
Kodachrome R.I.P.  raelalt | 07/07/09
never heard of Kodachrome? (nt)  What the ...! | 03/09/09
Show me where to get K24?  Bruizer | 03/09/09
Fujichrome 50D  Geotopia | 05/07/09
E-6 Process  Geotopia | 05/07/09
I was talking about 12 MP APS-C sensors  Unix Pimp | 03/10/09
No you weren't  Bruizer | 03/10/09
who said 12 MP for pros?  kevinrs1 | 04/11/09
Exactly  Etch44 | 05/07/09
Film vs Digital  Prostock | 04/09/09
There's more to quality than resolution  tbcass | 03/09/09
Digression -- Equivalency film vs digital  mggordon | 03/09/09
Just an aside...  readwryt@... | 05/07/09
But remember how you chose a camera  PhilippeV | 04/09/09
re: How little you know about "good old" 35mm film  molumen | 05/07/09
There is another option...  MSFTWorshipper | 03/06/09
You make no sense.  tbcass | 03/09/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  electricpower | 03/06/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  nospam@... | 03/06/09
35mm film  dev-null | 07/07/09
I prefer very high quality more than megapixels.  Grayson Peddie | 03/08/09
Greater dynamic range vs. more MP  mmoran@... | 03/09/09
Greater dynamic range: technology exists  pkcyll | 03/09/09
What kind of rig do you currently use?  mmoran@... | 03/09/09
The weakness is display, not taking  mggordon | 03/09/09
re: Greater dynamic range vs. more MP  trm1945 | 04/09/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  derekgore | 03/09/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  PeterMG | 03/09/09
its on the user, not on the rig  adelacuesta | 03/09/09
The only problem: FUD sells...  goyta | 03/09/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  kapauldo | 03/09/09
Re: 12 Megapixels Enough? For most, yes; but ....  dcwest | 03/09/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  luv2run@... | 03/09/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  dougsdigs | 03/09/09
Addressed yes, solved no.  mggordon | 03/09/09
Look at CPUs  TriadX1 | 03/09/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  rdhalsteatzd | 03/09/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  levine@... | 03/10/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  ewelch | 04/09/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  elizasuttn | 04/09/09
Most!  gbentley@... | 04/13/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  dennis@... | 05/07/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  dategu | 05/07/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  phatkat | 05/07/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  tigerkat1@... | 05/08/09
Sorry Olympus 12 megapixels is NOT enough  kday | 05/10/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is NOT enough  crawlers | 05/19/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  crawlers | 05/27/09
Finally someone in the camera industry admits the nonsense...  aharry@... | 07/07/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  rajashekhar.rao@... | 07/07/09
Compare with music  macgroover | 07/07/09
RE: Olympus: 12 megapixels is enough  rttedrow@... | 07/07/09
Does the camera take the picture?  rushingturtle | 07/07/09
faveon sensors  crawlers | 08/19/09

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