Just curious, where did you get those numbers from? The 8mp sensors are
2/3" ones I believe. That would mean they are all 8.8m x 6.6mm. The
APS-sized sensors in the Nikon DSLR's are all 25.1mm x 16.7mm. That's a
considerably size difference.
And, in this case, the numbers are very important to the image
quality. The smaller sensors will produce more noise than the larger
ones. So far, the Sony 8mp 828 has had significant noise issues (though
some argue that it's "really not that bad" once you run it through a noise
cleaning program like Neat Image). It is unknown whetehr the offerings
from Nikon (8700), KM (A2), Olympus (8080), and Canon (Pro 1) will have
come up with some better noise-controlling algorithm or whatever.
But the bigger sensors in the DSLR's certainly should make a rather large
difference in terms of noise.
allan
At 01:24 PM 2/13/2004, you wrote:
>--- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "ckayakman"
><ckayakman@y...> wrote:
> > The new crop of 8mp cameras are limited by sensor size, if you want
> > to go digital you will find better image quality in the larger
>sensor
> > 6 mp offerings from Canon (10D, 300) Nikon (D100, D70) Fuji (S2,
> > S3).
>
>The new 8mp camera have a sensor size of 19.1 x 28.7 while the 6 mp
>cameras have a sensor size of 15.6 x 23.7. The 8mp camera also have a
>larger pixel size, 8.2 x 8.2 versus 7.8x7.8 for the new Nikon D70
>for example.
>
>But, that was not the gist of my post. I know about technical details
>and frankly i'm bored with them. What I'm concerned about is image
>quality.
>
>Cheers,
>Andre
>
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