On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > paul stenquist wrote: > >>I have no problem with the Samsung sensor in the K7. >>The rendering is excellent and the detail is amazing. >>I think the low noise at high ISO capability of the >>Sony sensor may be a tradeoff on lower ISO detail. >>And I don't know if it's a function of sensor, >>software or both, but the exposure control of the >>K7 is the best of any camera by far. > > I find this recently fashionable bashing of the Samsung sensor funny. > It was quite a breakthrough when it appeared and probably the best in > its class at the time of introduction. It's still a great sensor now, > IMO - I prefer it over the sensor in the K-X at ISO settings below > 800, which is all I ever use. If Samsung expanded the same sensor to > full-frame size I'd happily buy a camera that employed it. >
It was good 3 years ago, with excellent resolution and high ISO performance that was competitive but not best-in-class. It wasn't a breakthrough, Sony already had the 1st generation of their 12MP part on the market at that point (albeit as a Nikon exclusive) and that sensor was comparable to the Samsung in most regards and better in some. Today the Samsung sensor is what it is. A good but obsolete part that is outperformed by current sensors by a fair margin. It's got great resolution, but that's mostly a function of MP-count and the AA filter, not sensor tech. Dynamic range is average and high ISO performance is adequate but lags state of the art by 1-2 stops at high ISO's. The only development we've seen from Samsung on the part is upping the read speed to allow 5.2fps, there's been nothing equivalent to the performance upgrade that Sony's 2nd gen APS-C sensors got. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
