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G1X MKII - Why the lack of buzz?

Started Oct 8, 2014 | Discussions thread
crashpc Veteran Member • Posts: 7,235
Re: Too low resolution for me

AdamT wrote:

I tried a MkII as my Mk1 is getting older and older and the mileage is heading for London Taxi levels - Shot RAW and developed In Capture one .. the lens was sharp enough but it was like shooting down a toilet roll at the wide end meaning that once you`d de-fished the image in PT lens and cropped from the centre without the black bits you ended up with about 10Mp - hence why people are finding the wide end soft on this camera as the JPG engine does this then upsizes to 13Mp !! ..

The Mk1 has a small bit of this but you still end up with a slightly wider than 4:3 , 13Mp image and with any zoom used at all, the full 14Mp --- the Mk2 is almost like shooting an APS-C lens on full frame at the wide end , the long end is far from perfect too . 10Mp is unacceptable , Heck the 14Mp of the Mk1 is low thesedays .. that lens is fast and NOT soft when not upsized by a JPG engine but it doesn`t even come close to covering the 1.5" sensor . I need a resolution Increase in an update not 4Mp less !! .

Lens covering whole sensor is not a goal. Opposite is true. They just should make it little bigger system with full APS-C sensor with slight "cut-out", so it would be real upgrade.

But I agree. That was exactly the reason I didn´t buy it. It got worse compared to previous version. This was tactics of Olympus back then, and I don´t believe them anymore. It will take some time I´ll buy or even recommend any Olympus camera again even when I see they got considerably better, no more rip-offs...

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