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 > > > -- Remember, it’s pillage then burn. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

