Hi Bernard,
I don't disagree. It is sort of horses for the courses.
Personally, I do a lot of stitching, but it is mostly to increase field of view, as an alternative to cropping.
Regarding AF accuracy, I don't really have a problem as I don't normally shoot action and often focus manually with live view. Now, just as an example, I have seen your images of Japanese horseback riders shooting arrows, they are just great and I see the need of accurate AF for that kind of shooting.
Roger Cicala at Lensrentals had some studies on AF accuracy and found that older generation Canons and Nikon were lacking in accuracy. He also found that late generation Canon cameras 1DX, 7DII and 5DIII had accurate AF when combined with late generation lenses. Don't know about Nikon.
For me, it is like that for what I do, I always prefer the highest resolution camera I can find/afford. Just wish I could also afford the best lenses. And oh yes, I would like to be able to carry those lenses to the places were I need them most.
Best regards
Erik
Erik,
I meant within their respective domains of applications obviously.
I have been doing stitches in the hundreds of megapixels for many years and rarely feel limited by stitching. 100mp in a back doesn't enable much I wasn't able to do already, and certainly not much more than what 80mp backs were able to do already.
On the other hand I also shoot fast action subjects using the D750, refered to by many users as having the best available AF until now, and although it is very good there are still many images I cannot capture with it yet.
So I am saying that there is much more room for technological imprivement in the domain of auto focusing than there is in terms of very high image quality.
Does that make more sense?
Cheers,
Bernard