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lorac wrote:
It says the same sensor for the new D5500 as the predecessor D5300. I'm not aware of the D5300 being one stop better than the D7100? That kind of talk makes me drool for the D7100 successor.
From the limited information available, it appears that the D5300 sensor has been updated to native 25,600 ISO without the "boost". I shoot a D7000 so I've not paid much attention to any of the D5xxx cameras and can't comment on D5300 vs D7100 IQ. My interest was peaked when I downloaded some of the high ISO image samples from Photographyblog and saw how clean they were at high ISO. That includes the RAW images.
Here is a blurb from Imaging Resource;
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Although resolution of the Nikon D5500's APS-C sized, DX-format image sensor is unchanged at 24.2 megapixels, Nikon tells us that it is actually a new design, and this, it seems, has allowed the entire sensitivity range of ISO 100 to 25,600 equivalents to be made available by default. (In the earlier camera, sensitivities beyond ISO 12,800 were available only if ISO expansion was enabled, indicating that image quality might be lessened at these highest sensitivities.)
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Obviously all this is still speculation but D5500 images posted are cleaner than I've seen from previous Nikon APC cameras.
Jim
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