Based on what I've seen, the E-3 is much closer to the D200 than the D300 at 3200, and certainly inferior to the 40D (Poor resolution of detail due to excessive NR).
-Adam On 12/7/07, Godfrey DiGiorgi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>> Who has a 14 megapixel APS CMOS sensor? > >>>> > >>> It's probably the Pentax-designed sensor we've been hearing about > >>> for a > >>> few years, with manufacturing done by some large semiconductor > >>> maker. > >>> > >> > >> Gee whiz. Doesn't Samsung have the capability to do that sort of > >> thing? > > Panasonic manufactures the NMOS 4/3 System sensor that the Olympus > E-3 is using. From what I've seen, that chip has pretty darn nice ISO > 3200 noise characteristics ... better than the Canon 40D, and very > close to "on-par" with the Nikon D300 (the latest new technology > 16x24 sensor DSLR). Given Olympus' spec for active chip area, that's > 10.1 Mpixel spread over 13x17.3 mm chip area, or ~44,900 pixels/ > square mm. > > A 16x24 mm sensor having 14 Mpixel with the same technology would > have lower density and presumably even better noise characteristics, > at ~36,450 pixels per square mm. The K10D's older technology sensor > has about 26300 pixels per square mm by comparison. > > Godfrey > > (BTW: my friend's Nikon D300 arrived yesterday. I had the chance to > fool with it at lunch today. It was fitted with the Nikon 17-55/2.8 > VR lens. A very nice camera to work with.) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
