The Color Red

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Here is a softball shot from 2005 using the Nikon D2x in its high-speed crop mode, which is 6.7 megapixels with a 2.0 crop factor. Instead of using the full DX sensor and getting 12.2 megapixels, at a top firing rate of 5.0 fps, HSC mode gave 6.7 megapixels at 8.2 fps, which back in 2005 was considered quite amazing.

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Here is a softball shot from 2005 using the Nikon D2x in its high-speed crop mode, which is 6.7 megapixels with a 2.0 crop factor. Instead of using the full DX sensor and getting 12.2 megapixels, at a top firing rate of 5.0 fps, HSC mode gave 6.7 megapixels at 8.2 fps, which back in 2005 was considered quite amazing.

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This has held up well over the 11 years. I think in '05 I was using the Olympus E-1. I think it was ~8 mp and 6 fps? It's been so long I've forgotten. Nowhere near the image quality of the D2X.
 
I remember the Olympus E1. It had a non interchangeable but very good quality zoom lens. The above softball photo was made with the 70 to 200 F / 2.8 VR,(@ 175mm at f/4 at ISO 640 ) the first one, the lens that was so good on low to medium resolution DX sensors. That lens had quite a skinny barrel, and was amazing on DX... but it was not that good once we hit 24 megapixels on full frame. Even stopped down to F 7.1 on the 24-megapixel D3x, the corners showed softening, and after about sixteen years of good service,I was forced to sell it. I paid $1,695 for it the very week it was released, and after 16 years I got $1,000 from selling it. The lens was really amazing for its time, but the skinny barrel was not up to the task of covering full-frame.

To replace this 70 to 200 I bought the fairly uncommon 80-200 f/ 2.8 AF - S, which had been designed for film, and which performed much better on a larger sensor.
 
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