16 Jul 2008

ISO 1600: Olympus E510 vs Canon 5D

View the image on the left at 100% and not many words are necessary...

Photos were taken under equivalent settings. RAW files were developed in ACR 4.4. Noise reduction was turned off.

Since noise is strongly correlated to pixel density and the sensor surface of the 5D is about 3.84 times larger than the 510 sensor, what would you expect other than what we see in this example here ? The 5D gives you much much better low light performance, although technologically the camera is 2 years behind the E510 :)

Note: If you don't shoot in ambient light and you don't fancy shallow depth of field, the 4/3 system is still an excellent option, in particular for sport and wildlife photography.

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