Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/31

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Subject: [Leica] Adventures in Alpha-land
From: richard at imagecraft.com (Richard Man)
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 17:46:55 -0700
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The fact that this is 2-3 years after the release of the 24 MP sensor that
don't perform too great at super-high ISO and there is yet to be a refresh
indicates to me that there is a technological wall. The opinion from certain
Lugger that we will have super high res and super high ISO in 2 years is not
grounded in understanding of the issues...

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:33 PM, James Laird <digiratidoc at gmail.com> 
wrote:

> > The Alpha full frame sensor isn't so hot on super-high ISO...
>
> Correct. Neither is the 24mp D3x compared to the 12mp D3s. It's a
> 'sensor thing'. Could be one of the reasons Leica went with 18mp for
> the M9, best of both worlds?. With the a900 ISO 3200 and 6400 are for
> emergencies only, pretty noisy, although thye're there if you need
> them. The D3s is probably still the champ in the super-high ISO world.
>
> Jim Laird
>
> --
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