On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:53:54PM -0400, Adam Maas scripsit: > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Graydon<[email protected]> wrote: > > Is it known for sure there's no Panasonic involvement in the image > > processing engines outside of the D and P&S systems? The S2 specs > > are rather better than I recall PhaseOne managing to do. Could be > > faulty memory or PhaseOne being more price sensitive. > > The S2 processing specs are actually marginally inferior to the latest > PhaseOne backs, the P65+ and P40+ as they lack the pixel-binning tech > PhaseOne has introduced for high-ISO shooting. And it is confirmed > that Panasonic has no involvement with the processing engines on the > M8, DMR or S2.
Having gone and looked up PhaseOne, I'm highly impressed; 85 total employees, and possibly less than 60 technical employees, is a very small number to be doing specialized IC design with. > As it happens, Leica has no involvement on the processing hardware for > any of the PanaLeica stuff and as far as I'm aware doesn't do the > software either (Panasonic does the software to Leica specification). > Leica has actually been pretty open about their partners for the 3 > in-house designs. Open is not always the same thing as complete, though. :) -- Graydon -- 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.
