What camera has the most megapixels for a professional photographer? Cannon, Nikon?

What camera has the most megapixels for a professional photographer? Cannon, Nikon?

Before anyone else mentions it - it's Canon, not Cannon, and there are lots of things more important than the number of megapixels. But the answer is neither - last time I looked it was a Hasselblad, with 400 mp.

Professional DSLRs are beyond your budget, and unnecessary. I'd also rate Pentax above the two you mention, even if you could spell CANON.

Highest end digital cameras are like $50,000. Hasselblad and Leaf, etc.

The Nikon Z7 with 46 MP is the current king of the megapixels for Canon and Nikon.

I would think this would be the last question a professional photographer would ask…

You can go to and on the left there's a filter to choose the megapixels of the camera.

Currently, Hasselblad is the leader with a 100MP camera.
Mamiya/Leaf comes in second with an 80MP camera.
Next is Leica with a 64MP model.
In fourth place is the Fujifilm GFX with a 51MP sensor.

Once you get down to the 50MP sensor range, then you have numerous models from Canon, Hasselblad, and Mamiya/Leaf. But nothing from Nikon.

Nikon's highest MP cameras come in at 45MP which are the D850 and the new Z7 mirrorless camera.

Your question is pointless. No professional photographer would choose megapixel count as a primary specification. BTW, cannons are field artillery weapons that have nothing to do with photography.

I remember seeing a tv programme that said archeologists taking pictures of Egyptian artifacts still used camera and film using Hasselblad cameras because they were the best quality.

Canon's 5DS and 5DSR both have 50.6 megapixel sensors. Such high pixel counts are only of value in particular circumstances; for most shooting it's actually of no help or even counterproductive. Professional and advanced amateur photographers do need to take resolution into account, but it's usually way down the list of priorities when choosing a camera. If pixel counts were the deciding factor then we'd all buy the biggest camera we could afford, and drive a dominant market in them. As it is, larger formats such as so-called "medium" format cameras account for a much smaller number of sales, although still significant.