Evidence of Sony censor?

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Dheorl
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Re: Oh the agony...
In reply to papillon_65, 5 months ago

papillon_65 wrote:

Dheorl wrote:

I keep on hearing around these forums that the EM-5 has a sony censor, and that therefore the EPM-2 and EPL-5 (and some people say the GH3) also all have a sony censor.

Now sony is a good company when it comes to parts. Nikon and pentax have used it's sensors to make some of the best stills APS-C cameras on the market, apple use it's batteries in their market leading iphone (which although I hate it everyone else seems to love). I therefore have no issue with my cameras having sony parts in... as long as one of those "parts" isn't propriertary... or the menu. God I hate that thing... Anyways, getting of topic here.

As a science student though one thing that does bother me is that this is repeated as if it is gospel, whether by sony fan boys claiming it's a sign of the decline in m4/3, olympus fan boys claiming no panasonic camera can compete because it doesn't use a sony censor, or using it to point out the decline of panasonic because they have no resorted to a sony censor, panasonic fan boys... You get the idea.

If that's all you have to worry about then you're a lucky boy.

Oh, I have a lot to worry about, but most of it isn't relevant to a camera forum so I feel would be rather innapropiate to post here.

All of this has been said though and I have yet to see one single bit of evidence, or a reliable source that actually backs any of this up. So, is anyone able to actually provide some evidence so next time I see this mentioned I don't just despaire at how much the human race reminds me of the sheep behind my house.

Well based on logic I'm pretty sure it is a Sony sensor. I had the Sony Nex 5n and and apart from the difference in size/pixel pitch these sensors perform very similar in terms of dynamic range etc. I also very much doubt Panasonic would produce their best sensor ever and then give it to Olympus before the GH3 came out. Sony is probably the best sensor maker in the business right now so if Olympus didn't buy it from Panasonic who did they buy it from? It definitely wasn't Pentax or Nikon, they source most of their sensors from Sony. It definitely wasn't Canon, their sensors aren't are up to the job and I'm pretty sure it wasn't Samsung. That pretty much leaves one manufacturer who have the resources and the know how to mass produce a high quality sensor in a different size at the speed required, have a wild guess

Either way, I don't really care, I'm more concerned about the state of the economy, as a student you probably ought to be as well.

I suppose this could be held true for the olympus sensor. The one that possibly causes more curiosity as to the reasoning the the GH3 sensor. I'd hardly class similar dynamic range as an indication of sensor relationships though.

As a student the state of the economy doesn't worry me hugely mainly because I will have not entered it for a fair few years.

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