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<p>I think that 24mp dx sensor is suited more for nature photography than birding. It can also be used in architecture or close up photography, certainly not for wildlife, action photography. High mp enables more detail and heavy crop availibility is misleading. The 24mp dx sensor is so dense that it generates too much noise. In the cropped images, the noise is very apperant even at low iso values like iso 200, or iso 300. The sensor technology has been evolving at a fairly slow pase, thus the incremental noise suppression improvements are largely due to embedded-in-product noise reduction softwares rather than the sensors itself. The images posted in this tread look too good to me. I don't know if they are 100% crops or downsized pictures. Even so, one should post the non-processed images. The images posted here look like they have been processed in terms of noise reduction by the Capture-NX software. If you remove the software effects, and look at the same shots, you can see the difference.<br> In bird photography, light coming from long distances tend to diffuse more. If noise is added on to the diffused light, the picture is very diffult to recover. Such problems can be minimized by using larger pixels. Companies have been producing higher and higher mp cameras in demand from the market of amatures. What should have been done is to keep the pixel numbers the same, and improve the quality. This way, faster cameras with high quality outcomes would have been possible. It looks like the only cameras that fit into this category is the pro-level cameras such as d3s, d4, or d4s in the Nikon line-up, which is what it should be used for action, birding photography. Don't waste your time and money with these 24mp dx line-up unless you need them for specific purposes, IMHO. In the long run, they make you lose more.</p>