The BSI approach is *much* more helpful for small sensors than for large ones. There is a BSI APS-C sensor in Samsung\'s NX-1 and while it\'s certainly competent it didn\'t seem to bring any revolutionary breakthroughs with it. I expect maybe a bit more sensitivity, but not much -- certainly not a full stop. My impression is that Sony went with BSI mostly for the readout speed which it improves considerably.
Instead I\'m a bit worried about DR. The Sony press release trumpets \"new levels of quality, sensitivity and response speed\" and I can\'t help but note that DR is absent here. The only mention it when saying that the improved light collection efficiency enables \"wide dynamic range\" which is saying nothing.
I guess once we get some decent RAW files we\'ll see...
Jun 11, 2015 at 02:28 PM
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