The early CMOS sensors were not used because they were noisy and
crude compared to CCD's. Things have changed and the ones used in the
Canon are useable at 1600 ISO which can't be claimed sensibly by
others. The high end Nikon pro bodies also use CMOS.
The E-300 was criticised for noisiness so shifting to a MOS sensor is
clever. The main problem that Panasonic has had with its cameras,
like the Lumix line, has been high noise at 400 ISO and don't bother
going higher. There was a huge motivation for Panasonic/Matsushita to
develop a better sensor which I suspect we'll see in their compacts
and EVF's soon. This became available to Olympus through their
agreement.
I don't doubt it. It 'can' - the only question is whether it will
just yet.
AndrewF
On 28/01/2006, at 3:35 PM, Komtanoo Pinpimai wrote:
> "The E-330 has a newly developed image sensor that we call the live
> MOS sensor -the FFT CCD can't show the live view. We developed it in
> order to get better battery consumption and image quality. This sensor
> can provide low noise image."
>
> **low noise image** I doubt it.
>
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