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GX8 sensor is much bigger than GH4 sensor, why?

Started Sep 11, 2015 | Discussions thread
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Cheng Bao Senior Member • Posts: 1,158
GX8 sensor is much bigger than GH4 sensor, why?
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http://camerasize.com/compact/#381,525,629,ha,f

I measured the pixels, the mounts of 3 camera have similar pixels in diameter, around 121 pixels.

However, the sensor in GX8 is considerable larger than others, I measured 1.333x larger than GH4, which would make it crop factor 1.5x. It is a APS-c sensor inside and cropped to m43?

Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH4 Panasonic Lumix DMC-GX8
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