{"id":545,"date":"2008-12-18T22:01:40","date_gmt":"2008-12-19T03:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=545"},"modified":"2011-04-14T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T17:12:09","slug":"the-best-digital-camera-sensors-compared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"THE BEST DIGITAL CAMERA SENSORS COMPARED"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Top 4 Digital Camera Sensors in Overall Image Quality – DxO Labs<\/em><\/p>\n

How good is your digital camera sensor? How does it compare to other camera sensors in terms of color depth, dynamic range, and low-light high ISO quality? Is there a reliable source where you can find this information?<\/p>\n

The good new is yes, there is a great, reliable source for this kind of information – DxO Labs.
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So how reliable is DxO?\u00c2\u00a0 In an online article<\/a>, Popular Photography<\/a> magazine says: “And unlike much of what you see on the web, you can take this information seriously. It comes from France’s DxO Labs (www.dxo.com<\/a>), which supplies sophisticated testing software to the optical industry. In fact, DxO’s Analyzer is an integral part of Pop Photo’s testing suite, and we swear by it.”<\/p>\n

The people at DxO Labs<\/a> know camera sensor image quality inside and out.\u00c2\u00a0 Their Optics Pro software is highly respected. They could write the book on the RAW capabilities of digital camera sensors. Fortunately for us, they have posted information on the RAW image quality of 53 current and recent digital camera sensors in the image quality database at DxOMark.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nCanon 50D and Canon 5D Mark II, Sensor Quality Compared – DxO Labs
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What good is this information?\u00c2\u00a0 Suppose you bought a Canon 20D back in 2004 and you are wondering if the Canon Digital Rebel XSi would give you better image quality.\u00c2\u00a0 That very question was asked in a camera forum recently and most people who answered had no clue, so they just guessed that the more recent camera would have better image quality. They were wrong. The answer is at DxoMark where you can pick any two or three cameras and compare image quality. As you can see from the graphic that follows this paragraph, the Canon 20D, launched in August 2004, has slightly better image quality than the much more recent Canon Digital Rebel XSi (450D), launched in January 2008.<\/p>\n

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\nCanon Rebel XSi\/450D compared to the Canon 20D<\/em><\/p>\n

DxOMark ranks all cameras in terms of color depth, dynamic range, low-light high ISO image quality, and overall image quality. The top 4 cameras in overall image quality are in the graphic at the top pf this post. The top 4 cameras in each separate category (as of December 18, 2008) are listed below. These ratings are based on the RAW image output quality of the digital sensors.<\/p>\n

Top 4 Camera Sensors, Color Depth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Color Depth is especially important to studio and still-life photographers.<\/p>\n

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\nTop 4 Camera Sensors, Color Depth<\/em><\/p>\n

Top 4 Camera Sensors, Dynamic Range<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dynamic Range is especially important to landscape photographers.<\/p>\n

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\nTop 4 Camera Sensors, Dynamic Range<\/em><\/p>\n

Top 4 Camera Sensors, Low-Light, High ISO<\/strong><\/p>\n

Low-light, high ISO performance is especially important to photojournalists, sports photographers, and action photographers.<\/p>\n

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\nTop 4 Camera Sensors, Low-Light, High ISO<\/em><\/p>\n

Point-and-Shoot Digital Camera Sensors<\/strong><\/p>\n

The folks at DxO Labs included a few digital point-and-shoot cameras in their image quality database. As would be expected, due to the tiny sensors and much smaller pixel pitch (size of the photosites), even the best of today’s digital point-and-shoot cameras do not come close in image quality to the digital SLR camera sensors, even the DLSRs from several years ago.<\/p>\n

The Canon PowerShot G9 and the Panasonic Lumix LX3 are two of the highest rated cameras released over the last year or so, but as you can see from the graphic that follows, the image quality numbers just don’t stack up against digital SLR sensors.<\/p>\n

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A lot more information is available at DxOMark.com<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Go have fun and do your own camera comparisons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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