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Subject: [OM] Re: Interview with Watanabe Akira, Olympus DSRL development Manager
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:14:19 -0700
As I said, reviewers were unaware of the 10MP raw conversion. It  
could be that Nikon had not yet incorporated it into their software.  
If you look here for a description of the sensor,

http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond1x/

you should see what I mean. I got it partly wrong. The 5MP raw  
conversion requires down sizing in the horizontal direction and  
upsizing in the vertical direction. The 10MP raw conversion requires  
only upsizing in the vertical direction and the horizontal is native  
resolution.

You sort of prove my point that it is an unmarketed feature because  
you did not know it nor could you read about it in a review. It was  
discovered by users. Nikon users know about it and have talked about  
it. I would not expect a Nikon user to know everything about Olympus  
if they did not participate in a forum like this.

Here is a review that discusses it a bit. Not surprising he is a  
Nikon specialist and unlike policy at dpreview at the time he worked  
with raw images, not jpg, and did not just take the results of  
default settings. It is only in the last year or so that Phil has  
discovered that there might be a difference. The jpeg engine in the  
1DX is a 5MP image. And it is obvious from Phil's review that he is  
unaware of the 10MP option.

http://www.bythom.com/d1x.htm

Apparently you were offended by the comparison to Fuji. It was just  
used as an example and I don't really care which camera is better at  
10 or 12 MP. That was not the point. The point was your statement  
that if a camera were splash proof it would be marketed that way. My  
answer was that while that may be generally true, it is not always true.


Winsor
Long Beach, CA
USA


On Oct 1, 2006, at 5:56 AM, C.H.Ling wrote:

>
> Usually I don't listen, I belive what I see:
>
> http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond1x/page25.asp
>
> http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/fujis2pro/page19.asp
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Winsor Crosby"
>
>  The D1X
>> had odd rectangular pixels so that that only one dimension was native
>> and the other had to be resized in the conversion. In the raw
>> conversion you could pick either a 5 megapixel image or a 10
>> megapixel image, either one with one dimension native and the other
>> interpolated. Nikon never said anything about it and thus it was
>> never picked up in reviews, but someone like Fujifilm trumpeted their
>> S2 as a 12 MP camera. Later Fuji acquired a little restraint in
>> subsequent models. People who used it agreed that the real resolution
>> of the 1DX at the upper resize was roughly equivalent to 8MP(about
>> the same as the upper real resolution of the Fuji), at a time when
>> 6MP was the upper limit for everyone else. You probably did not hear
>> about it though.
>>
>>
>> Winsor
>> Long Beach, CA
>> USA
>
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