The only thing that bothers me is marketing bs about it being a 45mp sensor. It is a true 15 mp sensor. All sensor using a color array can only represent one color out of the three possible at each pixel location. A value from 1 to 255 is associated w/ odor intensity (8 bits, a byte is needed). The sd1, dp1m and dp2m each pixel location needs to represent three colors (3 bytes) thus 15mp x 3 --> 45mb raw files at min. Thus no color adjacency issue, no guessing that could cause issues w/ resolving a clean edge.
If I ever bought this camera I would use it within it constraints and not be worried about the negatives. Between rx100, x100, and xp1, I have other things well covered. Over 60 % of my photography is w/ landscape and inanimate objects. The ret is split between street, portraits and family related pictures.
Cheers
Gary
Ps another way to look at it, if someone were to produce a monochrome 15mp camera, in theory it should resolve the same detail as this sensor (dp2m) but w/ much smaller raw data size since no need for storing info on three color intensities.. Ala Leica monochrome...
