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Why is the pixel of Canon 1D X so low?

In order to ensure the image quality under high ISO.

Noise (particles that look like noise) will appear in pictures with high ISO.

Under the same technical conditions, the noise situation is very related to pixels per inch.

Canon 1D X controls the number of pixels to ensure the image quality under high ISO.

18 megapixel is not low, which can fully meet the needs of professional fields (except for a few large-format commercial advertisements).

1DX is designed for news photography, and it is often necessary to shoot in bad conditions such as insufficient light.

Therefore, we should pay more attention to the image quality under high ISO (high ISO can improve the shutter speed).

This is the same reason that Nikon D4 has only16 million pixels.