Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/07/22

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Subject: [Leica] 4/3 sensitivity
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:09:14 -0700
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At 3:12 PM -0400 7/22/09, lrzeitlin at aol.com wrote:
>I have an Olympus 5-500 with an 8 MP sensor. The new EP-1 has a 12.3 
>MP sensor. Since all the digital camera literature touts pixel size 
>as the key to sensitivity, does the 1.5 times larger pixel size of 
>the E-500 mean that it is more sensitive than the EP-1. Everything 
>else being equal, of course.
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>Larry Z
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In a word, no.

Everything else is never equal.


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