{"id":2166,"date":"2013-10-08T20:40:16","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T20:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gcmphotographic.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2021-01-17T21:35:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T21:35:53","slug":"comparison-between-nikon-d70-d90-and-d3200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcmphotographic.com\/?p=2166","title":{"rendered":"Comparison between Nikon D70, D90 and D3200"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a basic comparison test to address the question ‘ Do pixels really count?’<\/p>\n

All three cameras were tripod mounted, set to daylight, aperture priority, matrix metering and focus set to centre.<\/p>\n

Images recorded as NEF (the Nikon version of RAW), the reason for this was to eliminate any tweaks that the camera software might apply to a jpeg file by default.<\/p>\n

The cameras cover a 9 year period, the D70 being produced from 2004, D90 from 2008 and\u00a0 D3200 from 2012.\u00a0 ( Expect to see a D3300 at some point in 2014.)<\/p>\n

Mega pixel count is 6mp, 12mp and 24mp respectively.<\/p>\n

The first thing that shows is the way the cameras reproduce their images, being that all 3 cameras were set to aperture priority it would be expected that the overall brightness of the photograph would be similar, wrong! The\u00a0 D70 produces an image \u00be stop\u00a0 darker.<\/p>\n

Full frame image from each camera.<\/p>\n

\"D70-@f11\"<\/a>D70<\/p>\n

\"D90-@-f11\"<\/a>D90<\/p>\n

\"D3200-@-f11\"<\/a>D3200<\/p>\n

The difference in sharpness only starts to show once you go above 100%.<\/p>\n

All the cameras are capable of producing a photograph up to A4, however double this size and the D70 image starts showing a break up of image, the D90 image is still fine as is that of the D3200.<\/p>\n

Images cropped to same area at 200%.<\/p>\n

\"D70--200-per\"<\/a>D70 – 200% crop<\/p>\n

\"D90--200-per\"<\/a>D90 – 200% crop<\/p>\n

\"D3200--200-per\"<\/a>D3200 – 200% crop<\/p>\n

Although not seen through the above reduced for website images, the D3200 image at the same crop has 4x the number of pixels in it.<\/p>\n

It was always said that to make any noticeable difference in an image the number of mega pixels would have to be quadrupled, this seems to have been proved.<\/p>\n

The conclusion is quite straightforward, if you are producing photographs for a website or printing no bigger than A4 and without excess cropping, then the number of pixels is not such a major issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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