What camera upgrade would be most suitable for portraits?

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Hi,

I currently use a Canon EOS 400D with a 50mm 1.8 lens on it.

I get good results however sometimes the images aren't as crisp or I can't achieve the depth of feild that I want.

Any tips on improving my portrait photography would be great. Would anyone recommend any kind of technical upgrades as well? DIfferent lenses or bodies? I'm just wondering :)

Looking forward to hearing your suggestions and tips.
Thanks,
Martin

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I'm afraid to say that if you can't get sharp shots with a shallow depth of field on an APS-C DSLR with f1.8 lens then either the equipment is faulty or the user needs some lessons.

How many megapixels an APS-C sensor can take before noise start to be more obvious?

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With all dSLR manufacturers racing against time to cram more megapixels on their APS-C sensors, I wonder will there be a time where dSLR cameras start to be compact cameras with more noise? And what is the ideal MP in an APS-C sensor?

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The answer to your question is that it depends. Canon has 10 MP APS-C sensors in the Rebel XTi (400D) and the 40D camera and both perform very differently as far as noise reduction. The Rebel XTi runs a Canon Digic II processor which is not as advanced as the Digic III processor in the 40D. The processor in the 40 is so good that the images show very little additional noise when compared to images produced by the Canon 5D which has a full size sensor.

So in response to your question, we have hit the point where noise from too many pixels is a potential problem, but the additional power in the new image processing chips are counter acting the issues with the newer sensors.

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