The 24.2-megapixel sensor in the D3200 isn’t brand new – it made an appearance last year in the Sony Alpha SLT-A65 and SLT-A77 digital SLRs and the image quality reports on those cameras are generally pretty good – especially considering the dramatic increase in resolution over previous APS-C crop sensor DSLRs. But with the recently announced 36-megapixel D800 full frame digital SLR and the 24.2-megapixel D3200, they are clearly emphasizing megapixels. In the past, Nikon was more conservative with their digital SLR resolution. There seems to be a theme with Nikon’s most recent DSLR announcements.