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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.
So if the lens is great, you don't care if you use it with an old ~1 megapixel camera with a noisy sensor that requires long exposure times in reasonable light settings? Countering the idea that megapixels don't matter isn't the same as saying they are the only thing that matters.
Rather pointless fixing edge distortions in glass when you can correct the distortion in the math and crop any edges off.
Maybe when we had optical viewfinders, film behind the lens and no computer in the camera it was worthwhile, but fixing these effects in the lens is pointless now. The computer can do it better.
Also consumer cameras are not blurry across the lens, your once crappy iPhone, now has a sensor featuring one of the best optical stabilizers available, better than DSLR stablization simply because it moves a tiny amount of glass far faster than the larger lens.
The electrical characteristics of a small CMOS sensor too are far better. Your iPhone 6 is on the lastest fab process.
Crap photos, even at ISO100, slow cameras that can only take a few shots a frame, and they pat themselves on the back when they upgrade from ancient chip fab processes?
Notice how the 5dMKII pics are zoomed out? That is because it is a full size sensor. Due to sensor crop, the image produced by the other two cameras gets zoomed in by a factor of 1.6 or so. Naturally, you can see more detail if it is zoomed in. Also, the reviewer is talking about having issues with camera shake while on a tripod, has he not ever heard of a remote shutter release?
It is interesting to wonder how much process size vs. pixel density effects sensor noise, and Samsung certainly has some nice fab facilities.
Still this reviewer seems like an idiot or a paid shill. I’ll wait for something from DPReview.
did you swap iPhone for Android in your text? I usually have iPhone people asking me to take pictures with my SIII because it takes so much better shots.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Then the parents are in on it too, seeing as how they pay me to take the photos and all. The local paper is in trouble too, since they occasionally print my photos.
Please feel free to go fuck yourself. You're probably the only partner you can get. Actually your hand probably even rejects you.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
The advantage to mirrorless is the lack of front/back focus relative to traditional SLRs. Right now, the Samsung is fast for daylight AF but still hunts in low light. Still, it's 15 fps. It's good enough to be competitive with the 1Dx believe it or not -- I have the 1D Mark IIn which had better brightlight focusing than the 1D3 or 1D4 (the whole Rob Galbraith series of articles). The 300/2.8 will be Samsung's make-or-break lens for the industry.
Good glass is critical, but Sigma has come out of nowhere with brilliant results as have Sony (with the FE Zeiss primes). I think the 16-50/2-2.8 compares very well against the 17-55/2.8 EF-S -- it's just not as good as teh 24-70/L II.
The Samsung 50-150 and 300 will be true tests of whether the NX platform itself is valuable imho.
Then, as you say, what will Samsung be doing in 5 years? That's the biggest gamble..