On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Graydon<[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it known for sure there's no Panasonic involvement in the image > processing engines outside of the D and P&S systems? The S2 specs are > rather better than I recall PhaseOne managing to do. Could be faulty > memory or PhaseOne being more price sensitive.
The S2 processing specs are actually marginally inferior to the latest PhaseOne backs, the P65+ and P40+ as they lack the pixel-binning tech PhaseOne has introduced for high-ISO shooting. And it is confirmed that Panasonic has no involvement with the processing engines on the M8, DMR or S2. As it happens, Leica has no involvement on the processing hardware for any of the PanaLeica stuff and as far as I'm aware doesn't do the software either (Panasonic does the software to Leica specification). Leica has actually been pretty open about their partners for the 3 in-house designs. -- 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.
