Is it safe bet: the 7100 has the same sensor as the 5200?

Placation101 said:

Placation101 wrote:

Exactly what the release said is it is an all new sensor.

reading all of the sensor dimensions which vary slightly camera to camera they are the same for the 7100 and the 5200. So from that I do think the new sensor equates to the d5200 minus AA.

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Exactly what I was thinking too..

"But it's not the same sensor—this one has been engineered without the low-pass filter designed to help eliminate aliasing distortions"


Sounds closer perhaps to a ground up design, rather than just a simple removal of the AA.

Mike

carauction said:

carauction wrote:

"But it's not the same sensor—this one has been engineered without the low-pass filter designed to help eliminate aliasing distortions"

http://gizmodo.com/5985753/nikon-d7100-a-loaded-intermediate-dslr-might-be-just-right

Sounds closer perhaps to a ground up design, rather than just a simple removal of the AA.

Mike

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It's not the same sensor package, because the AA filter has been replaced by glass. I wouldn't put much stock in the gizmodo article author's statements; besides the typos and misreferences, he apparently doesn't know that $1200 is not an unusual price point at introduction for top-end enthusiast DX body cameras. For entry and mid level, yes, one does not go beyond the $900 of the D5200. Imaging Resource, a much better source, posts a picture supposedly of the D7100 sensor, and the deep shadow patterning of posted D5200 and D7100 images are very similiar.

The D5200/D7100 pairing follows the pattern set by the D7000/D5100 pairing: essentially the same imaging chain with better AF and control. The D7100 tweaks this a bit with the AA filter to capture those sales leaks to the D5100 that were happening because "it's the same sensor".