Sony: 36mp 12FPS FF?

An Exception · 23 Jul 2012 at 23:55

http://www.sonyalpharumors.com/sr2-huge-surprise-coming-soon-36-mpx-slt-this-week-accordind-to-kir-tuck/

An Exception · 24 Jul 2012 at 07:28

If it has an mraw feature, that should help noise.
I'm thinking this might be an amazing body for the video guy's.

An Exception · 24 Jul 2012 at 09:07

Hmm, I guess it depends on how the resizing works, i.e. does it average 4 pixels into 1, or does it take 1 pixel from 4, and throw the rest away. If it's the latter, I wouldn't want to be using mraw personally.

Edit:
Meant to say wouldn't.

An Exception · 24 Jul 2012 at 11:05

Ksanti said:
Wouldn't the latter mean a way bigger load on the Cpu and render 12 fps impossible?

I meant to say wouldn't.
If the resizing averages 4 pixels into 1, then those 4 pixels become 1 clean(er) pixel. If you throw away the other 3 instead, you don't really improve the appearance with making it smaller.

If you compare the video ISO performance of the 5diii and D800, you will see that unlike stills, the 5diii does allot better in ISO over the D800.
I think I read somewhere that the D800's downsizing just involves reading less lines on the sensor to get 1080p, thus is simply discards a large number of pixels.