Samsung's Advanced Chips Give Its Cameras a Big Boost

GhostX9 writes: SLR Lounge just posted a first look at the Samsung NX1 28.1 MP interchangeable lens camera. They compare it to Canon and Sony full-frame sensors. Spoiler: The Samsung sensor seems to beat the Sony A7R sensor up to ISO 3200. They attribute this to Samsung's chip foundry. While Sony is using 180nm manufacturing (Intel Pentium III era) and Canon is still using 500nm process (AMD DX4 era), Samsung has gone with 65nm with copper interconnects (Intel Core 2 Duo — Conroe era). Furthermore, Samsung's premium lenses appear to be as sharp or sharper than Canon's L line and Sony's Zeiss line in the center, although the Canon 24-70/2.8L II is sharper at the edge of the frame.

Comments

Re:Who cares would still buy a Canon

[Anonymous Coward]

Good one. We also would have accepted Shamesung or Shitsung.

Re: Sensors are only part of the equation

[Anonymous Coward]

Har har har you stupid old man with your quaint cameras. Our iPhones and whatever take better quality pictures than any high-end full-frame camera. Who cares about depth of field and white balance or RAW processing. We computer nerds know anything. Har har har. Now let's jerk off.

Re: So we'll get a camara as good as the iPhone?

[someoneOtherThanMe]

Blind testing cameras? Hmm...

Re: Technically DSLR doesn't specify a mirror or n

[Anonymous Coward]

"Technically," you apparently have no idea what the word "reflex" means. You also apparently have no idea what a rolling shutter is, and the "rolling shutter" effect often talked about wrt digital camera video is only called that because the slow sensor readout mimics the same kind of jelly effects caused by a real rolling shutter in film cinema cams.

TL, DR: you are a moron

Re:Crop + correction makes this pointless

[houghi]

All this is possible if you are just willing to use a program that understands the vocal input "Enhance!".