Downloaded the shot with flowers. That's an ISO 100 F6.3 shot. Jeez, that's not what I expected from this 2/3" 8mp with a Carl Zeiss lens. At F6.3 the lens is just beyond its optimal aperture, but still.....
All these samples - S5000 reviews, S7000 Asian user shots, official Sony F828 samples - simply prove that cramming more and more photodiodes on the same size sensor simply doesn't cut the mustard. And to know that it sells for more than a 300D (with the right lens I would be happy to upload a 100% crop to a DPC challenge)......
I fully understand Canon to stick with the 6mp on the 10D sensor where people expected more compared to the D60. The next generation will most probably use something like a 7 to 8mp 1.3 crop sensor (like the 1D, limited to 4mp at the moment -nothing wrong with that-).
The S7000 samples I saw were absolutely horrible. Noise, sharpening and compression artefacts, chromatic abberation beyond F5, it should stop as soon as you come at F4! The resolving power showed not that much of an improvement.
Same thing about the Fuji F700. I expected a significant increase in dynamic range, it shows harly a third stop of an advantage. The resolving power of the SR SCCD is pretty damn good though.
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