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Subject: [OM] Re: Reviews of E-410 and E-510
From: Larry <halpert@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:37:29 -0500
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
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>
>
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 9:37 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
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>   
>> 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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