you forgot to add "at the same iso seting". since you have mentioned dpreview, according to their measurement, canon D20 at 400 has pretty much as much noise as G3 at 100 and G3 at iso 50 is as low noise as D20 at iso 200 (and better than D20 at 400).
size does matter, but far less if you don't shoot at iso 1600. but read on: the "4MP" G2 in my tests has never been able to actually resolve more than 1.7 MP, which i attribute to the so-so lens. that can probably explain an apparently much better quality of images coming from dslr's much better than the "lower noise" mith: your 50/1.7 is very likely to give you a real 6MP (or very close to that number) photo, while even with a no-noise, 4MP sensor cooled with liquid nitrogen G2 is still in reality 1.7 MP camera. mishka On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 18:21:08 +0100, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A file from a Canon > D30 (3MP) will print up much better than a file (say) from a 5MP Sony > DSC-F717 simply because the larger sensor of the D30 has less apparent > noise than the much smaller sensor of the Sony.
