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Olympus E-PM2: Small Camera, Big Surprise

Started Jul 23, 2014 | Discussions thread
ThePhilips Contributing Member • Posts: 749
Re: Olympus E-PM2: Small Camera, Big Surprise
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cgarrard wrote:

dpreviewreader wrote:

The EPM2 is off by no more than 1/3 stop. DPR's test of EM5's ISO rating showed it was off by 1/3 stop and I don't expect the EPM2 to be any different as it uses the same TruePic VI processor. It is certainly not off by 1 stop.

A good argument to present to DXOMark I'd presume.

I personally stopped reading after the ISO values rant. On one side, the review though written well, is devoid of details. It is written as an opinion, not as a review. On the other side, "oh my, that DXO stuff again".

DXO invented that cr@p and so many people are simply driven by the numbers. It is hard to judge IQ from the real world image - but so easy to compare the faceless numbers.

I watched for few years the m43 to mature. Literally every DXO test of m43 camera is off or just doesn't make sense. In older times, my friend's Canon if judged only by DXO numbers, should have beaten the E-P1, but real life images showed clearly a different picture, with the E-P1 often outdoing the 1000D, while generally IQ being comparable. More recently they have found 1/3-1/2 EV difference between GX7 and GM1 which have *identical* sensors.

Mind you, they still insist that sensor from GH2 has the best dynamic range of the m43. Something only a blind person would believe, because to us, seeing, the real world images say clearly otherwise.

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