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JPEG engine noise in NX100 vs NX200

Started Mar 1, 2012 | Discussions thread
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shademaster Contributing Member • Posts: 803
JPEG engine noise in NX100 vs NX200

One thing I noticed after the NX200 review came out is how noisy the NX100 JPEGs are compared to competitors (E-P3, NEX-5n, NX200).

I first looked at the RAW and thought that there was no noise-based rationale for me to upgrade from NX100 since it's on par with NX200 and NEX-5n below ISO 1600 and beats E-P3 there. But the noise in JPEG is terrible! It's a factor of two worse than everyone else at low ISO.

Can that be true??? A factor of two??? It looks like the samples might be underexposed for NX100. Did DPR check that the average pixel intensity was nearly constant from camera to camera and ISO?

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