"What Digital Photography" votes Fuji's S3 best sensor

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RichA wrote:
> Brit magazine.
> The Super CCD sensor is the best sensor type
> out there, according to them. They compared it
> to everything else including full frame Canon,
> Foveon, 4/3rds, etc. Key advantages? Dynamic
> range and colour rendition.
>
Yeah... What's a little noise between friends?

Douglas

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On Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:26:33 +1000, Ryadia <just@the.group> wrote:

>RichA wrote:
>> Brit magazine.
>> The Super CCD sensor is the best sensor type
>> out there, according to them. They compared it
>> to everything else including full frame Canon,
>> Foveon, 4/3rds, etc. Key advantages? Dynamic
>> range and colour rendition.
>>
>Yeah... What's a little noise between friends?
>
>Douglas

They mentioned seeing white areas that were burned out
with other sensors that upon turning down the brightness
presented detail using the Fuji. Seems that noise
took a back seat to dynamic range.

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Stacey wrote:
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> But noise is -THE ONLY- thing we can care about! Anything else like
> dynamic range, tonality or color rendition are useless details
> compared to measuring noise at ISO800 and up.

Noise you can reduce in software, but not recover blown highlights....

<G>

David