If the A700 is performing better than the 40D at 800 ISO then they're in
very good shape for full frame. Simply scaling up to the same pixel
density in a full frame chip would give them about 28 MP. They could
knock the pixel count down some and have even better performance.
Chuck Norcutt
Andrew Fildes wrote:
> My experience of the sensor in the Sony a700 is that it is very good
> at high ISO. Very. They have an A/D converter on the end of each row
> of pixels on the chip - 4000 of the little blighters so that signal
> is already whatever. I don't really understand all this technobabble
> but I thought it better than the 40D at 800 ISO. Consequently, I see
> no reason why they can't manage it.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 21/11/2007, at 8:48 AM, Winsor Crosby wrote:
>
>> If the sensor is
>> also from a Sony-Nikon collaboration, it will be Sony's first FF
>> effort as well and a lot of coordination will be needed. The
>> difficulties in getting acceptable high ISO performance from a 22 or
>> 24 MP sensor is not only more difficult than with 12 MP, but the
>> expectations will be higher in a competitor to an $8000 camera.
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