Monday, January 24, 2011

Panasonic's AF100's Sensor Too Small?

Matt Jeppson over at FreshDV has a nice article up about the sensor size of the AF100, the latest AVCHD codec based camera from Panasonic.  The article covers just how much smaller the AF100's sensor is compared to the full-frame sensor found in the Canon 5D, but that it compares favorably to Super35 and the Red cameras.  Most interesting is when you compare the AF100, a sub-$5,000 dollar camera, with the Sony EX1 (a camera that sells around $6K):
The AF100 clearly surpasses (at least in terms of sensor size) the EX1, which was to date really the only affordable large sensor camera you could get your hands on. And it does all this without forcing you to make the myriad workarounds and concessions required when shooting DSLR.
Read the full article here.

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