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Subject: Re: [OM] What would you buy?
From: John Lind <j-a-lind@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:09:55 -0600
My NEX-7 has 24 MP, and the better lenses (most notably the Carl Zeiss) will 
fill it with 24 MP of image - an APS-C size sensor. The RX10 and RX100-II 1" 20 
MP sensor is BSI (backside illuminated) which makes a very significant 
signal-to-noise ratio improvement over non-BSI sensors of the same size. The 
other common issue with small(er) sensors is having a lens with sufficient 
resolving power for the sensor pixel pitch. Stating the obvious, having a 
sensor with a googolplex of pixels does no good if the lens is only capable of 
delivering a googol of "information" to be recorded by it. The RX10 Zeiss 
Vario-Sonnar has the resolving power to fill the sensor with more than 20MP of 
data; i.e. the sensor is the limiting factor, not the lens.

John

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>> On Jan 11, 2014, at 4:05 AM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> On 1/11/2014 1:42 AM, Frank Wijsmuller wrote:
>> That 'hair' is about 80% of the difference between APS-C and Full Frame.
> 
> Put another way, the RX10 sensor is about half the area of the NEX sensor, 
> with more pixels, 20 vs. 16. Net result is 
> that the pixel pitch is almost twice as dense. Unless Sony has some new magic 
> in this sensor, that means smaller pixels, 
> means more noise and lower IQ.
> 
> Just the Facts Ma'am Moose
> 
>> Let's not get facts in the way of our advice, shall we ;-)
> 
> No fun, otherwise.
> 
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