That's the case with the older bodies, those used a 8, 7.5 or 5.4MP sensor which was much noisier than the new 10MP sensor they introduced with the current consumer bodies.
-Adam P. J. Alling wrote: > I seem to remember the reviews saying that the noise at ISO 800 with > those cameras was much higher than other cameras in that class or if in > camera noise reduction was turned on then the resulting photos had > visibly less detail, (though both Olympus cameras offer 4 levels of > noise reduction). > > Adam Maas wrote: >> Mark Roberts wrote: >> >>> Adam Maas wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: >>>> >>>>> The Olympus E-3 top of the line camera is now announced on >>>>> >>> DPReview.com: >>> >>>>> http://www.dpreview.com/news/0710/07101603olympuse3.asp >>>>> >>>>> US price supposedly $1699 MSRP. >>>>> The grousing on the DPReview.com Olympus SLR Talk Forum has just >>>>> begun ... ;-) >>>>> >>>> Looks nice, price is too high for a camera which only matches the D200 >>>> spec. But a reasonable flagship body for the 4/3rds system. >>>> >>> I'm a bit skeptical about cramming 10 megapixels into a sensor that >>> small but I hope they've found some interesting new technology to pull >>> it off. Because it'll be really nice when it filters up to larger >>> sensors/pixels :) >>> >>> >> The E-410 and E-510 have the 10MP sensor as well, with noise performance >> up to roughly what the competition has with their 10MP cameras >> (Excepting the 40D and 1DmIII, whose high-ISO performance is well above >> the other 10MP cameras due to the improved sensors similar to the new >> 12MP sensors in the Sony A700 and Nikon D300) >> >> -Adam >> >> >> > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
