DXOMark results for GH3

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Anders W
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Re: Panasonic up for a humanitarian award
In reply to exdeejjjaaaa, 4 months ago

exdeejjjaaaa wrote:

Chez Wimpy wrote:

Anders W wrote:

I don't. I think IR's interview with Olympus strongly indicates that it is made by Sony. You don't.

I just think it shows what a great company Panasonic is. They develop this incredible sensor, leaps and bounds over what they managed to date, and allow Olympus to have exclusive use for nearly a year - including their bargain priced models - putting all of Panasonic's cameras to shame. Not only that, they went and released another model with the older-GH2 sensor fab in the interim just to further EM5 sales, and winked to the crowd "hey, mums the word!" when the Olympus president declared that the EM5 used a Sony sensor. Then even held back from making the GH3 implementation multi-aspect to maintain an advantage over Olympus.

Occam's razor couldn't even manage melted butter at this point, but I think the pertinent issue is: "Who cuts melted butter anyways?" Seriously Anders, I don't know what reality YOU are living in!

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it is very simple case... they were hoping to get a multiaspect sensor also done by their engineers in time but they did not deliver and as a result they were forced to use the regular 43 sized sensor as they clearly told you... Panasonic was always designing 2 sensors... like Intel has several competing groups designing different sensor architectures and sometimes one wins and some times another group...

http://www.imaging-resource.com/news/2012/09/28/qa-with-panasonic-the-story-behind-the-new-gh3-and-compact-system-tech

"Panasonic: Our main priority was image quality, both for stills and movies. For our former models, the GH1 and GH2, we developed a special sensor that was a little bigger than Four Thirds. However, because we wanted to make so many improvements with the GH3, we didn't have a larger sensor available. The Four Thirds-size sensor was what was available from our sensor group."

Which translates into ordinary English as: "When we asked our sensor guys, they said they couldn't come up with what we really wanted and suggested that we order one from Sony instead. Regrettably, that made things a little more expensive for us than we had figured so we had to cut some corners."

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