Originally posted by Zygonyx almost incredible in my opinion
Yep those are incredible sensors... but we shouldn't get too exited about them...having one big company with a big technological advancement is never good for consumers..let's hope the knowledge gets pretty fast to other sensor producers and that they are able to get similar performance, and better still lets hope someone like Samsung makes a good leap forward with something. It's an oligopoly so we're partially f***** already so let's hope they do not form a cartel and that they continue to compete (small actors are necessary to prevent the big bad ones from agreeing to blow us dry).
Originally posted by chicagonature then the Nikon 800 sensor just creamed the Pentax 645D by the score of 95 to 82 in DxOMark tests
Yep...although that's an overall score, and obiously the d800 beated the crap out of the 645D in high ISO...the 645D still reproduces more detail...and the bokeh, Dof,....are still different. What Nikon has done is not "creaming" the medium format but they have released a camera that may reduce the incentive to invest in it. MF, exept for the high 60-80 MP range, will have to react somehow to keep it's "low level", "entry" models as a viable and cost effective option.