Sylwek Actually, The Olympus does quite well compared to Canon D10. Not quite as sharp though. And much more noice. dpreview tested it agains Sony DSC F717 too, which actually does very well in spite of the smaller sensor in this pro-sumer 5 MP SONY (which I BTW own and enjoy using. I am expecting the *ist D to be significantly better - should I ever get one :-).
Jens Bladt mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hjem.get2net.dk/bladt -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: Sylwester Pietrzyk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt: 10. maj 2004 09:47 Til: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Emne: Re: Pentax * ist D doing badly in Fotomagazin test on 10.05.04 7:33, Jens Bladt at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just got the the lates issue of Fotomagasin. There is a test comparing all > DSLR's. Ist D isn't doing too well: 145 points (max 200 possible). In fact, > no other DSLR did worse. Best was Olympus E-1, Nikom D2H and Canon Eos 1Ds > (175-176 points. > This is odd because according to www.preview.com the Olympus (as an example) > isn't doing quite as well. In fact not really better than the SONY DSC F717 > as far as sharpness is concerned - in spite of the much larger sensor. Nikon > D100 got only 159 points, Canon 10D; 162 points. I guess Fotomagasin doesn't > like the SONY sensor, because D100 and Pentax *ist D got the lowest grades > for reslution. It seems that according to FotoMagazin E-1 is better than Canon 1Ds :-))) Well, their tests were often controversial. For instance when they tested low cost SLRs two years ago, they gave Nikon F65 more points for features than MZ-6 (ZX-L).It is enough to look at smome specificatios of both cameras to know that N65 s much less capable than MZ-6 - no spot metering, no Custom Functions, no HSS flash, shutter speed 1/2000 (vs 1/4000)... I'll leave such a "tests" without comments. Otherwise I haven't seen a single test, where E-1 would have better picture quality than *istD. -- Best Regards Sylwek