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Interesting,..  So this photography forum can actually help a person re-connect with his inner soul to... that should help the photography!  PeePee

Only if the OP is implying that those two cameras are taking the same picture with the same basic camera settings...... which he... ahh... actually does seem to be implying

http://www.clarkvision.com/articles/digital.sensor.performance.summary/#low_light  Early in the Digital Camera era, the number of pixels was relatively similar and sensor sizes varied. But now...

I agree

Oh come on Dennis, I've been reading your comments for some time, you can do better then thisI bought and LX3 a few years after my F30 and I was tempted by the LX7. I know the LX3 was better. The...

Sorry about that  :)

Interesting, can you site any data on this?  Because what I see is companies like Panasonic and Canon that seem to be holding down the mp count on their more pro cameras like their LX and G series...

InterstingThx DM

I would not even pretend to think that I have a handle this subject. In fact I had a silly little discussion the other day of whether the light gathering abilities of a sensor should be analogous...

This subject has been beat'n almost to death, but there has to be a point where a sensor can have too many pixelsAccording to this website it actually begins at 6mp in compact cameras. Any more...

OK.I guess it's just in my head that if someone like Sony made a new 10 mp sensor that had the latest innovations in sensor technology for smaller cameras they could actually get better pictures....

I actually didn't say that it wasn't "shot noise", (maybe I shouldn't have use the word "product") because it not "produced". I probably should have said it's "revealed" thru the process of turning...

Ok, but as I understand it the common noise that is seen in high ISO shots is a product of amplification of the signal that was received. If one photosite receives more light, then it uses less...

Is this analogy accurate?I thought that the better analogy would be to use marbles (for photons)So that just for simplistic arguments sake, if only one photon entered an area of 4 wells only one...

There are getting to be a few mirrorless cameras out there, but nobody is making any real money at it. R&D cost, the present economic situation and that fact that although mirrorless are good and...

I wonder if this would be enough resolution for the tech geeks on this forumBecause it's classified we can see if it's a Sony or Canon sensor  :)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od6kWBjh4Kc

Apps and hacked firmware are two different things.

Hey now that's a thought, a hacker friendly camera. It wouldn't be everybody's cup of tea, but it would be fun for those who have that inclination.

I think bean-counters have a heavy influence on all of them. The large number of models of cameras that are simply missing firmware features and maybe some minor extras makes it look like these...

Samsung may have produced more but who is more profitable?  I'm really not sure but I have a suspicion that Apple is