Mk7
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G1 X DxO score falls well short of the Mark!
Feb 1, 2012
The way DxO are falling all over themselves to praise the G1X, you have to wonder if Canon paid them off (or wrote the praise themselves). I'm sorry, the sensor is very good, but well short of class-leading.
Despite the bragging about DR by Canon in the G1 X announcement and website, Dynamic Range is WORSE than tiny sensor G12, S95 and S100, as well as Nikon 1. How does that happen?!?
Many of us (including DPReview) surmised that the G1 X sensor is a crop of the 18MP DSLR sensor. This clearly isn't the case - it's a cropped and
crippled
version. How else do you explain the lower DR and ISO scores, compared to T3i DSLR?
This wouldn't be so bad if the camera cost $650 or so. But the $800 price seems to make sense only if it included a smaller version of the DSLR sensor, with equal DxO scores. What else accounts for the $300 premium? The distorted/software-corrected lens? Don't think so. Improved AF and EVF? Heck no! No improvements have been made!
In the Comparisons section, why does DxO largely ignore NEX sensor (which wipes the floor with Canon)?
Other falsehoods from DxO:
"Up until now, the entire compact category relied on the same sensors as the lowest-level compact cameras, which meant that their usefulness was restricted."
"You have a reflex-quality sensor in camera of the same volume as a G11."
Not exactly true, is it? And, although they point out the 2-stop ISO advantage (over compact competitors), they don't pay much attention to the slower lens that gives back much of that advantage.
I will still buy the camera, but not for full price like I had planned to. Crippled, 2009-tech sensor is slightly disappointing.