Re: Another 7 MP camera

[Caveman]

Dunno, maybe they also got some better (lower noise) circuitry on the 
chip. I am aware that the samples on Canon's site were chosen to show 
only the best, but those on www.dpreview.com are "neutral" in this 
respect, and they look "smoother" to me. Smoother than  the 5, 6 and 8 
MP chip samples. The 6 MP sensor samples look the worst. Now we'll have 
to wait for the full dpreview review and see what the tests are saying.

Regarding the algorithms - it also may be the case. Look at the girl's 
portrait in the dpreview G6 samples. It's the first time I see hair that 
doesn't have a white hallo around (excluding DSLRs). Maybe there's less 
or better algorithms sharpening done there.

Juey Chong Ong wrote:
On Aug 19, 2004, at 9:56 PM, Caveman wrote:
Contrary to all those prophets who said that increasing pixels on same 
chip size does nothing but increase noise. Might it be that this time 
they also managed to address the noise problem in 1/1.8 sensors ?

I'm just speculating: it could be due to better processing algorithms. 
And having more pixels also lets them do selective sampling and drop 
"bad pixels".