Evidence of Sony censor?

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amtberg
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Re: Evidence of Sony censor?
In reply to Promit, 5 months ago

Promit wrote:

Nope, it's not a Sony sensor.

What actually happened is that Panasonic suddenly stepped their sensor tech forward two or three generations, and pulled out a sensor chip that performed dramatically better in every objective measure. The new chip also acts entirely different in a subjective way, producing entirely different noise patterns and highlight behavior that just happen to look exactly like NEX. Panasonic then decided not to use this new sensor in their cameras (mainly the G5), instead handing it to Olympus to produce a new set of PENs that make their own cameras look foolish.

Because that's what makes perfect sense.

(Aside: there's no actual concrete evidence of the Sony sensor. For that matter, I can't even find a iFixit type tear-down.)

Yep, I would say it falls just short of 100% confirmation, but it's obvious to anyone with a lick of common sense. Also seems obvious that the same chip is in the GH3 as it seems to have similar performance to the OMD and NEX, and explains why Panasonic went away from its popular multi-aspect feature.

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