An Interesting Experiment; Making The Same Photographs With Cameras From 4mp to 40mp; Can You Tell The Difference?

Here are the cameras I used. From left to right; Canon G2, Canon G9, Canon G11, OM-3,Ricoh GRIIIx and Fujifilm XE-5. (click any image to enlarge)The other day I was retrieving something from one of my bookcases. In the bookcase, along with (of course) books, on a couple of shelves I have a small display set up of old film and digital cameras, light meters, old film and other accessories from my past. Just keepsakes from my earlier photography days all the way back to the first camera I received as a 10-12 year old. That old gear reminds me from where I came, photographically, from a kid shooting family snapshots to a lot of professional work to still passionately enjoying my craft today. As I glanced at my ‘photographic past,’ the thought hit me that it would be interesting to do some comparison photography using some of my old digital cameras. How much difference could be seen when looking at almost identical images? How would a 4mp image stack up against a 40mp image? How would the…