Its kind of a catch-22, and depends on how many loud amateur posters
voice their expectations coming from overprocessed point and shoot
cameras. If a DSLR is introduced costing upwards of $800 so the
manufacturer decides to not include noise reduction or constant
sharpening for their jpeg processing, expecting buyers of this type of
camera to do it with better software in post processing - they are
knocked for having jpegs will less IQ. Preserving more detail is not
important to those people. Providing extra noise reduction & sharpening
in processing where it never can be fully turned off, like in the Nikon
D80, the loud P&S people rave over how the "smearing of a few
megapixels of detail" gives that camera "better" IQ . Those who want to
turn it off are just stuck - but they're not the loud ones. Reviewers
placating this crowd just further these flawed jpeg comparisons. Similar
to the loud cnet & epinions type reviews where 20 people with the real
name "Clem" in Alabama post "This camera rocks, dude!" just because they
have easy money to upgrade their P&S to a $1000 DSLR only to take pics
of the pitbull & kids. That's what sells cameras. I sure (fortunately)
learned that quickly with my K10D after borrowing a friend's D80 long
enough to get annoyed with the Nikon's smeary/tendency-to-blow
highlights results).
Larry
Winsor Crosby wrote:
> I agree with you and Olympus is not crowing about a new principle of
> low noise sensor design. What we will see, I think, that reviews will
> show lots of noise above ISO 400 if operating in RAW and the kind of
> jpeg noise reduction we are seeing with other DSLRs and Oly's own
> digicams resulting in some sort of compromise between visible noise
> and the smearing of a few megapixels of detail.
>
>
>
> Winsor
> Long Beach, California, USA
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>
>
>> The Panasonic sensors are generally regarded as having more noise
>> than most.
>> I've not heard much comments on that from our 330 friends, but the
>> examples
>> on sites like dp show more noise and more invasive noise reduction.
>>
>> On the other hand, while the Kodak sensors are highly regarded for
>> their
>> color qualities, they also are noted as having high iso noise
>> problems.
>>
>> I'm not convinced we've seen high iso sensors developed to a point
>> where
>> they match the rest of the camera features.
>>
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