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The errors in Tony Northrups "cheating" accuse video. | Mirrorless Rumors
I would like to add:
- Most cameras offer lowest ISO 100. Some offer 80, 160 or 200, but either way, thats the lowest noise level your camera can possibly have. Giving more light to a smaller sensor will thus NOT lower the noise further - it will simply overexpose, giving no image at all. This is massively ignored by this video, implying that you can use a 25mm f/0.95 on a MFT camera just like a 50mm f/1.9 on a full frame sensor. This is not true, the f/0.95 cannot create images with as low noise, simply because the sensor cant offer lower ISO than the full frame sensor.
- Photographically, the VERY POINT of using smaller sensors is to have more depth of field. Using huge lenses on them to get the same amount of light on the sensor as for larger cameras will remove this advantage again, and it will make these lenses quite complex and expensive, just to reach the same level. Even worse, this complexity is repeated for every new lens repeated again. Its thus much cheaper to just use a larger sensor instead.
- Some technology is available for small sensors thats not available for larger sensors. Right now thats the BACKLIT sensors. Backlit means that in the production of the sensor, the photodiodes are created first and thus end up on the lowest level; every other circuit is above them, and theres a good layer of silicium above them either way, blocking light. Backlit means the sensor is cut on the other side until the photodiodes are reached and then the sensor is flipped, so the light comes from behind, hitting the photodiodes now sitting directly below the surface. This technology is for example used in the Sony 1" Sensors, as used in the Sony RX100M2, RX100M3, and RX10. This means this sensor performs much better than expected for its size, as can be seen for example in the impressive DxOMark ratings for that sensor.
- The video also ignores the problem of diffraction, which physically limits the possible resolution.
I would like to add:
- Most cameras offer lowest ISO 100. Some offer 80, 160 or 200, but either way, thats the lowest noise level your camera can possibly have. Giving more light to a smaller sensor will thus NOT lower the noise further - it will simply overexpose, giving no image at all. This is massively ignored by this video, implying that you can use a 25mm f/0.95 on a MFT camera just like a 50mm f/1.9 on a full frame sensor. This is not true, the f/0.95 cannot create images with as low noise, simply because the sensor cant offer lower ISO than the full frame sensor.
- Photographically, the VERY POINT of using smaller sensors is to have more depth of field. Using huge lenses on them to get the same amount of light on the sensor as for larger cameras will remove this advantage again, and it will make these lenses quite complex and expensive, just to reach the same level. Even worse, this complexity is repeated for every new lens repeated again. Its thus much cheaper to just use a larger sensor instead.
- Some technology is available for small sensors thats not available for larger sensors. Right now thats the BACKLIT sensors. Backlit means that in the production of the sensor, the photodiodes are created first and thus end up on the lowest level; every other circuit is above them, and theres a good layer of silicium above them either way, blocking light. Backlit means the sensor is cut on the other side until the photodiodes are reached and then the sensor is flipped, so the light comes from behind, hitting the photodiodes now sitting directly below the surface. This technology is for example used in the Sony 1" Sensors, as used in the Sony RX100M2, RX100M3, and RX10. This means this sensor performs much better than expected for its size, as can be seen for example in the impressive DxOMark ratings for that sensor.
- The video also ignores the problem of diffraction, which physically limits the possible resolution.