Smaller Panasonic sensors are very poor at higher ISO, often to the
point of being unuseable at 400ISO. Panasonic have been particularly
incompetent in rectifying this deficiency. Note that I mean small
sensor, not small camera. It might be acceptable in the compact
market but not with something like the FZ series. It is possible to
make a small sensor with outstanding low-light performance, as in the
Fujifilm F30.
It is annoying given that they are often rebadged as Leicas, often
have Leica lenses and are usually very well designed, robust cameras
with great features. The usual way of dealing with this is to use
aggressive in-camera processing that the user may be unaware of until
they try to 'improve' their shots in Photoshop and find that they are
already on the edge of what is possible and can't be pushed any
further. Leica uses its own firmware (processing engine) or tweaks
the Panasonic one but still can't get around that speed limitation.
I just bought myself a Leica D-Lux 3 (Panasonic LX2) because it is a
brilliant walk-around compact but it annoys me that I won't be able
to use it sensibly for much but outdoor work. That is frustrating but
at least it now has RAW.
It was something of an unfair comment by me originally because the
E-330 chip is excellent at higher speed but as a school photographer
told me a couple of weeks ago, they like the E1 not just for
robustness but because of the skin tones. That will probably be lost
now with the replacement.
Hope that's not too sesquipedalian for you - but anyone who can use a
word like that deserves all they get. :-)
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 14/03/2007, at 3:20 AM, Bob Whitmire wrote:
>
> OK, so I notice upon return from work some disparaging comments about
> the news that the E-Thing may have a Panasonic sensor. Can anyone
> explain to me, without going totally techno-sesquipedalian on me, why
> this shows a bad thing?
>
> Many thanx!
>
> --Bob
>
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