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Sometimes Sony uses a sensor early in one of their...

2008-08-16T07:07:00.000-07:00

Sometimes Sony uses a sensor early in one of their own cameras early (eg P150) and then come up with a new camera (eg P200) and give it to the other manufacturers. From what I faintly recall the P200 did better than the P150, so there is promise if a similar scenario plays out with the W300 sensor and newer/future camera/sensors at Photokina.

Maybe they should take the W300 sensor and put it in a V-series-like model (with real RAW) and go head to head with the LX3, P6000, G9 (G10), etc!

Returning to this topic - have you looked at the i...

2008-08-16T01:34:00.000-07:00

Returning to this topic - have you looked at the image samples of Sony DSC-W300? The sensor is 13.6 megapixels (1/1.7 inch). Compared to LX3, it doesn't do at all badly.

Even though the W300 has some noise, it is reasonably clean even at ISO 400-800. Some reviewers - Luminous Landscape, dpexpert and Imaging Resource - even claim that ISO 1600 is usable, and it doesn't seem to be too bad. On the other hand, there are other reviewers who are not so enthusiastic about the image quality.

They weren't on a good start with 2 errors on the ...

2008-08-14T08:17:00.000-07:00

They weren't on a good start with 2 errors on the front page (stating the sensor is 16:9 ratio, it's not and then later saying there is no wide converter - actually no tele converter).

No RAW analysis (RAW type, pictures across many scenarios, conversion software), apparantly minimal frames shot. For a camera acknowledged as targetting the serious shooter, very little serious shooting was done at all.

Indeed, things are going to heat up. Canon surely ...

2008-08-12T15:18:00.000-07:00

Indeed, things are going to heat up. Canon surely must have at least a G9-replacement! Maybe we can get a couple of pleasant surprises as well, from Canon or others!

Thanks for pointing this nice and detailed review ...

2008-08-12T13:15:00.000-07:00

Thanks for pointing this nice and detailed review out. No big surprises, but not big disappointments either. Now we need to see whether Canon G10 will be annouced or not...