It was one of my thoughts when reading the tech manual, that with this many pixels a 36mp sensor should be able to resolve a line 1.5x finer than a 24mp sensor. Perhaps my math is off, but the cameras ability to resolve is much finer. At some point a camera that resolves to such a level would require an exceptional amount of stability to reach it's full potential. Maybe we have reached this point with MP counts and as we get higher we will have to use tripods to take advantage. ChadS thoughts seemed to be along these lines as well.

But, the tech manual really didn't read this way. My take on the tech manual was that now because the camera can resolve to this finer detail that the higher resolution is going to make your hand held shots blurrier than they would already appear. That because it has a substantial amount of points, pixels or lines of resolution that the additional pixels will exaggerate the blur that you would see in your normal pictures. More lines of resolution, the more blur. Would this be the case? That the normal quality of our hand held pictures if the pixel count and resolution gets higher that they will now be worse because we have an increased pixel count to some insane number?

My other thought is more of the marketing conspiracy theory type. By putting data out that tells photographers how to be better photographers, they increase the sill level of their customer which in turn increases the quality of the pictures they get out of the camera. Then Nikon takes credit for their better pictures and claims it is because of the camera......very ingenious....educate your customer to increase your quality.