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Subject: [OM] Re: Shots again the E-500
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 10:40:53 -0400
Moose wrote:
> 
> They need to deal with Fuji, for sensors or technology. The sensors in 
> the new Super CCD HR sensor in the F10/F11 are at roughly half the 
> pitch, 1/4 the size, of those in the E-300/500, yet have very low noise 
> at iso 400 and low noise at 800. How much is the sensor and how much the 
> "'Real Photo Processor", I don't have any idea. What I do know is that 
> it shows that there is still a lot of room for improvement in the noise 
> to pixel size relationship. If what they have done is scalable up to 
> 4/3" with a matching decline in noise, that 12+ mp 4/3 sensor with low 
> noise at high iso, is possible.
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I had briefly scanned the F10 review on dpreview when you mentioned you 
bought one of these but I didn't really pay it much attention.  Today I 
went back and looked at the samples and was wowed by the ISO 800 and 
1600 stuff.  Especially this image of the inside of a theater:
<http://www.dpreview.com/gallery/?gallery=fujifilmf10_samples/>
Pull up the page and select image #10.  Looks like good lens performance 
as well as low noise.

Pretty amazing performance for something with a 9x12mm sensor.  At this 
same pixel density a 4/3 sensor would have close to 13MP and an APS-C 
size sensor would have close to 20MP.  I guess there's plenty of 
headroom left.  It has to stop growing pretty soon as it will be 
outrunning the resolution of the lenses.

Chuck Norcutt


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