Originally Posted by
WhyFi
I'm not sure what that has to do with my statement. I'm talking about people taking pictures, cropping down to 1/9th of the frame and patting themselves on the back for something that's might not even be suitable for a 4x6 print. If you're regularly throwing away/cropping out 90% of your frame, you've either got the wrong tools or you're not doing your tools justice. I understand that astro stuff is different, but you're literally and figuratively talking about a discipline that's different worlds.
I'm saying bad pixels are bad pixels man. I'm very pro crop, as long as you still have enough pixels left when you're done. If you have a very high MP sensor, it's true you may not need as much focal length ("zoom") when you're done, as you are more likely to have enough pixels after you crop. That's the subject of this entire discussion. The subject of the image really doesn't matter a bit in this regard (although I've provided some extreme examples).