Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]People who own the Olympus E-1 (which has a 5MP full transfer CCD) also swear that its color is sublime. Its lousy in high ISO performance, but then it's a 6-7 years old technology. Alas, the rest of the dSLR moves on to CMOS... On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:36 AM, George Lottermoser<imagist3 at mac.com> wrote: > I too have read and read and read these comparisons. > Yet my own side by side testing fly in the face of my reading. > > While "no quality difference" may be entirely technically true. > I can't help asking why the top of the line "medium format backs" continue > to use CCD > and why the smaller CCD's in the M8 and DMR out perform (to my taste) the > larger 5D cMOS. > I ask the question purely from my own anecdotal experience. > -- // richard m: richard @imagecraft.com // w: http://www.rfman.com blog: http://rfman.wordpress.com // book: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/745963