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mawz wrote:
Frankly, aside from resolution and per-pixel sharpness I've seen little to impress me from the Foveon sensors in terms of file quality. Decent colour normally, but colour falls apart quickly when challenged and they are inherently lousy in terms of colour accuracy due to the physics of the depth diffusion filtering (Foveon sensors cannot properly differentiate between colours which fall into the edges between two channels as the filtering is inherently insufficiently selective). Poor DR, poor noise performance. Overall IQ is IMHO inferior to my OM-D by a fair amount despite the resolution advantage. Since I don't look at my images at 100% aside from during post, looking good there is of little value (and frankly, you get the same effect from AA-less Bayer, see the M9 which provides lovely 100% viewing)
The Merrill's are a 1-trick pony. Resolution above all. But even then they don't have a huge advantage over Bayer (24MP AA-less Bayer is pretty damned close in resolution to the DP Merrills). If that's what you are looking for, they are a nice choice and far better than the older Foveon-based cameras. But they do not stand up well against modern APS-C sensors the moment you start looking at any criteria aside from resolution....Show more →
clarity, micro-contrast, 3D and colors are good IMHO and as it was mentioned before, resolution. I just returned from a trip where I used a DP2M and Sony NEX5n side by side for several hundred images. The Nex5n images look muddy compared to the DP2M. And I used good lenses on the Nex5n: Leica M, CV15 and Sony E 50mm f/1.8 OSS.
For landscape, travel and architecture the DP2M is a great camera. I see more advantages than disadvantages in practical use.
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