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Re:Fujifilm’s new X-H2 finally pushes its APS-C camera syste... by andyfilms1 on Saturday September 10, 2022 @09:49AM (#32790618)
There is a lot more to image quality than just resolution, and often increasing resolution will hurt sensor performance in other areas like dynamic range, QE, and noise.

The Arri Alexa's Alev III sensor, which has won basically every Best Cinematography Oscar for the last decade, shoots at about 3k resolution (~7MP) yet holds up perfectly fine on huge cinema screens.

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Re:Fujifilm’s new X-H2 finally pushes its APS-C camera syste... by antisthenes on Saturday September 10, 2022 @01:17PM (#32792569)
Anything at 1080p holds up fine on screens already, and that's only 2 megapixels, and it's been around for 15 years.

Majority benefit from shooting at a higher resolution is the ability to crop/zoom during processing. Sometimes, it's the ability to actually reduce the resolution to get rid of noise/grain.

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