Our pond on Deer Run Farm, MeLemore Cove, Walker County, Georgia.
Nowadays, not as much as you might think.
We had the picture you're looking at made into a 24x36-inch print to hang over our fireplace. It looks great. I have also had it printed 48 inches wide. Still looks great. It was made with an Olympus E-M5, a 16-megapixel digital camera with a tiny micro 4/3s sensor. The actual size of the sensor is 17.3x13 millimeters -- one fourth the size of a 35mm film frame.
Butterfly on azalea in our back yard, Deer Run Farm.
This is another file that was made into a 24x36-inch print. It was photographed with a Fuji X-T20, with a 24-megapixel sensor measuring 25.1x16.7 millimeters. About half the size of a frame of 35mm film. I wish you could see these pictures full size. The sharpness and resolution are superb.
Many blogs and podcasts will tell you that you need a full-frame sensor (24x36mm, the size of a 35mm film frame) to get high resolution files. That may have been true once, but no longer. Cameras made in the last few years combined with recently developed processing software have pretty much wiped out the difference. Even as far back as 2003, I discovered that my six megapixel APS-C Canon 10D could make a 16x20 print indistinguishable from one made from my medium-format Pentax 6x7 film camera.
My friend Dennis Mook, who blogs at https:/thewanderinglensman.com/, owns cameras in all three formats: micro 4/3s, APS-C, and full-frame, so he did a test to see how much difference he could see in the actual files from his micro 4/3s Olympus OM1 and those from his full-frame Nikon Z8.
The difference: not much. You can read about it here. (You should be reading his blog as a regular thing anyway.)
I began shooting micro 4/3s Olympus E-M5s alongside my full-frame Canons in 2012. In 2017 I sold the Canons and one E-M5 and switched to APS-C-frame Fujifilm cameras exclusively. I'm quite happy with the files they make. I'll tell you more about my thinking in the next post.
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