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...... Original Message ....... On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 12:17:09 -0500 "Adam Maas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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. -- 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.

