John Adams wrote:
David J Taylor wrote:
I would suggest not getting a 4/3 camera
(Olympus, Panasonic?), as these are almost as big and heavy as a
conventional DSLR, but have a smaller sensor which means more noise
or a lower ISO.

Then why do the Olympus E510 examples look better than the Nikon D40X
in side by side comparison?

http://www.digitalversus.com/duels.p...6&p2=2175&ph=2

To me, the Olympus images appear to have more noise than the Nikon. Look
at the lower left of the big bottle. A poor subject to test noise with,
though.

The Olympus images also appear to be either better focussed, to have a
poorer anti-alias filter, or to have more sharpening applied to them. To
me, the Olympus image look over-sharpened (which then introduces
uncertainties into the noise comparison). The Nikon image has noticeably
more saturation, the red at the bottom of the image.

Cheers,
David