Winsor Crosby wrote:
> Michael Reichmann has a preliminary review of the Leica M8 up on his
> site.
>
> http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/cameras/leica-m8.shtml
>
> Besides my interest in Leica what I found interesting is that he says
> the Kodak sensor is very low noise, second only to the Canon 5D and
> the 1DsMkII. It looks like Kodak is coming along which is good news
> for Oly.
>
The unanswered question is how much of the noise performance is in the
sensor itself and how much of that belongs to Kodak.
Nikon gets very low noise out of rather small sensor sites on sensors
fabricated for them by Sony. Sony's own DSLR is quite noisy.
A fabricator may make chips for a customer using that customer's
technology, but not be able to use it for other customers. What is done
with the signal after it comes off the chip makes a difference too. A
couple of models ago, if I remember correctly, N made a big improvement
in noise by switching to separate amplifiers for each color channel.
It's the whole package, not just the fabricator.
And didn't I read somewhere that the E-400 is not a Kodak sensor?
Moose
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