Did you look at the photos? The baby shot is at ISO 800 and I see no sign of excessive noise reduction. I have an old 3 Mega pixel Nikon 990 which has about the same size sensor and more noise at ISO 200. The F30 has twice as many pixels and less noise. The Fuji sensor does suffer from a lack of dynamic range but this can also improve as the technology matures and improves. I know the theory and I also know what has been achieved with improving sensor and electronics fabrication. I am not suggesting a 40 Mega pixel APS sensor (at present) but I am sure that in a few more years 20 Mega pixels with low noise and a decent dynamic range will likely be possible.
Powell P. J. Alling wrote: > >The Fuji may be using a lot of post processing to clear the noise. I'm >speaking of clean output from the sensor, not programming to clean up >afterward. The sensor sites are just too small to capture enough >light. I'm not going to do the math and repeat what's already in the >archives you can look it up for yourself. >Powell Hargrave wrote: > >>There is room to grow. Take a look at the Fuji F30. >>Sensor is a tiny 7.6 x 5.7 mm with 6.3 Mega pixels. APS size equivalent >>would be about 46 Mega pixels. >>Useable ISO 1600 with noisy ISO 3200. Ya I know there is lots of in camera >>noise reduction and some image quality problems but still most images look >>just fine. >> >>http://www.dpreview.com/gallery/fujifinepixf30_samples/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
