The "measured ISO" of the GH3: Surprise, surprise

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Re: The "measured ISO" of the GH3: Surprise, surprise
In reply to Ulric, 6 months ago

Ulric wrote:

Since the engineering departments of the two camera manufacturers have made the same design decision - presumably independently - I expect that there are sound technological reasons for doing so. Perhaps the sensor's characteristics are not linear and the sweet spot is not "to the right", so a design that maximizes sensor saturation would have produced worse images.

I think this is happening (if indeed this is the case) because of the marketing and not engineering... there is no technical reason to undersaturate - the only reason is marketing to JPG shooters who do not care to expose properly to "save" them from clipped highlights....

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