melcat wrote: charles.K wrote:The variable Bypass filter where you can choose three settings, is quite an amazing feature.
It\'s a clever solution to the problem they must have faced in having to produce two low volume models, one with and one without an antialiasing filter.
The technology is impressive, but...
... most folks who use a camera without an AA filter (or with AA filtering cancelled) end up simply feeling that they don\'t need AA filtering. This impressive bit of virtuoso technology is likely to not actually be used much at all.
So far, in pretty much every case I can think of, when a company introduced two versions, one with AA filtering and one without, the AA filtered version was no longer seen as being necessary and a) the non-filtering model took off and the filtering model languished, and/or b) the company did away with the AA-filtering model (i.e. — Nikon D810 replacing D800 and D800e), and/or c) the company simply switched to no AA filter (Pentax, Fujifilm) and the customers were happy.
Fred Miranda wrote: DougDolde wrote:
Of course it\'s limited and pricey for only having a fixed lens.
But my main concern relates to shooting handheld as this super small camera is obviously made for handheld shooting.
I don\'t see how you are going to get tack sharp images with a 40+ megapixel sensor unless you put it on a tripod.
That really depends on the minimum shutter speed you use. The good news is that the new sensor is capable of much cleaner high ISOs.
\"Sharper\" isn\'t the only potential advantage of higher MP sensors, though people focus on that* – and for some users it is the main thing. Other potential advantages include smoother gradients and smaller \"noise grain\" size.
Dan
* OK, I admit it. That is a truly awful pun... ;-)
melcat wrote: charles.K wrote:The variable Bypass filter where you can choose three settings, is quite an amazing feature.
It\'s a clever solution to the problem they must have faced in having to produce two low volume models, one with and one without an antialiasing filter.
The technology is impressive, but...
... most folks who use a camera without an AA filter (or with AA filtering cancelled) end up simply feeling that they don\'t need AA filtering. This impressive bit of virtuoso technology is likely to not actually be used much at all.
So far, in pretty much every case I can think of, when a company introduced two versions, one with AA filtering and one without, the AA filtered version was no longer seen as being necessary and a) the non-filtering model took off and the filtering model languished, and/or b) the company did away with the AA-filtering model (i.e. — Nikon D810 replacing D800 and D800e), and/or c) the company simply switched to no AA filter (Pentax, Fujifilm) and the customers were happy.
Fred Miranda wrote: DougDolde wrote:
Of course it\'s limited and pricey for only having a fixed lens.
But my main concern relates to shooting handheld as this super small camera is obviously made for handheld shooting.
I don\'t see how you are going to get tack sharp images with a 40+ megapixel sensor unless you put it on a tripod.
That really depends on the minimum shutter speed you use. The good news is that the new sensor is capable of much cleaner high ISOs.
\"Sharper\" isn\'t the only potential advantage of higher MP sensors, though people focus on that – and for some users it is the main thing. Other potential advantages include smoother gradients and smaller \"noise grain\" size.
melcat wrote: charles.K wrote:The variable Bypass filter where you can choose three settings, is quite an amazing feature.
It\'s a clever solution to the problem they must have faced in having to produce two low volume models, one with and one without an antialiasing filter.
The technology is impressive, but...
... most folks who use a camera without an AA filter (or with AA filtering cancelled) end up simply feeling that they don\'t need AA filtering. This impressive bit of virtuoso technology is likely to not actually be used much at all.
So far, in pretty much every case I can think of, when a company introduced two versions, one with AA filtering and one without, the AA filtered version was no longer seen as being necessary and a) the non-filtering model took off and the filtering model languished, and/or b) the company did away with the AA-filtering model (i.e. — Nikon D810 replacing D800 and D800e), and/or c) the company simply switched to no AA filter (Pentax, Fujifilm) and the customers were happy.
Dan
Oct 15, 2015 at 02:05 PM
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