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Are More Pixels Better at High ISO?

The 24MP Nikon D3x has has twice as many pixels as the D3, or 1.421 times as many pixels linearly. The D3x should have the same light-gathering ability as the D3, and therefore downsampling should provide similar noise characteristics, while at the same time reducing the digital artifacts introduced by Bayer matrix demosaicing: the net effect should be overall higher total image quality from the D3x.

The image sensor and the electronics that go with the sensor are not the same between cameras, so we can’t expect a perfect comparison here, but we can study whether the general proposition is reasonable: for the same sensor area, can a higher-resolution camera be expected to produce comparable or better image quality overall?

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