Recent M8 price on eBay... US $1,089.00

Why? To quote or paraphrase Shakespeare; there more things in heaven and earth, Turtle, than are dreamt of in MegaPixels.

Guess you did not read the whole post then. It matters not what you or I think if others are demanding higher numbers as this will have a greater bearing on price. It also has nothing to do with whether they are right or wrong.

All the stuff anout AA filters etc is old news and while this does help prevent detail smearing, you cannot make up for pixels that are not there. Fine detail is fine detail. Its not present in all images, but when it is it really shows up where resolution is missing. Its the same when comparing 35mm and 120. I have plenty of images where 35mm competes with 6x7 up to 16x12 due to the absence of fine detail, but when really fine detail is present the 6x7 can be evidently better at half this size. I generally find that man made scenes need much less resolution, like cars, buildings or anything else where there are evident 'shapes'. Differences in camera resolution and detail recording can sometimes be irrelevant and sometimes glaring. This is the same argument that those tired old Leicaphiles had back when 35mm film was their only option, declaring that their M6s really were able to produce the detail of a 6x7 neg/chrome because they did not need to stop down as much, better lenses, bla bla bla. Prints showed otherwise. Examples of fine detail would be found say shooting trees in winter at a distance where there is lots of detailed tracery of twigs and branches, railings at high frequency at distance, barbed wire at distance, antennae, vegetation, hair. Think of a bush in winter with a spiders web, frost crystals etc. Lots of examples. While camera A might produce an image that looks similar to camera B and you cannot put your finger on the difference, camera B might still produce an image you feel far superior. In my experience this normally comes from higher detail recording that may be right on the limits of visibility, but it still affects your perception of 'reality' or detail. Re the clock photo posted, lets be objective. The the RPS accepted that it met all technical criteria, not that it was better or worse than X. It could have been shot on a D70/Eos 3 with Sensia 100/350D and met the same criteria.

Re the M8, every objective test I have ever seen has shown that it does exceedingly well for its MP, but does lose ground where exceedingly fine detail is present compared to cameras with more MP, where those cameras are fitted with top lenses. I am no knocking the M8, but it IS 10MP and there is no magic to this. There is a finite amount of detail that can be recorded. FWIW the super image posted of the clock and leaves is a great example of an image that is made up of major shapes and outlines and not fine tracery. Shoot a car product shot on a M8 and a 24 Nikon or M9 and I bet you would see no real difference on huge prints. Take them into the woods in winter, pouring with fine detail and subtle tones and I bet the feel of the prints would be quite different.

I am assuming that there will be lots of comments from M8 owners about how 'I have a print X big and it is amazing etc' but this tells us nothing comparative at all. Whether more resolution in huge prints is objectively better will not affect that some will want the bigger numbers, whether they will ever see them or not, and this would seem likely to affect prices.
 
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M6 all the way....digital will never have the "feel" of film....film is film and quality is quality....if you are a professional shooting weddings then go digital, but film should be for people who want to take quality photos as a hobby with a love for it. Thats what I do and feel is the best...
 
film should be for people who want to take quality photos as a hobby with a love for it. Thats what I do and feel is the best...

As someone who shot film for 40 years and occasionally still does, I disagree, but then again I also don't believe that "what I do and feel is the best" translates to what everybody should do and feel is the best.
 
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