Compare your BIOS Pixel images with those taken with some reference cameras

In order to judge the quality of your camera you can find images taken with several cameras as a reference. Please keep in mind that the pixel count does not say anything about the image quality of a camera. you can find 10 or 14 megapixel cameras that creat much worse images compared to a good 6 megapixel camera.

Our internal reference consumer camera is the Fujifilm FinePix F31fd which not available anymore. That is a 6 Megapixel camera that was introduced on Photokina 2006 with an image quality no other compact camera has reached until now September 2008. Here are the images for comparison taken at ISO 100 to 3200.

FujiFinepixF31fd.zip (15 MB)

The Panasonic DMC-LX3 is the first compact camera (with quite a large sensor for a compact camera) that was introduced with the manufacturer statement that the pixel count (10 Megapixel) was selected on a low level in order to increase the image quality. It is the first one that comes close to the quality of the F31fd.

PanasonicLumixLX3.zip (20 MB)

Image quality is not generally a manufacturer specific thing. This is shown by the images of the two following cameras that are also produced by the manufacturers of the reference cameras. Both show e.g. a loss of details in the green grass areas especially at high sensitivity levels (> ISO 400). FujiFilm S2000hd (10 MP) und Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX37.

FujiFinepixS2000HD.zip (10 MB)

PanasonicLumixFX37.zip (12 MB)

For comparison you can download the images of two sample SLR cameras: the Canon EOS 450D with 1 megapixels and the Sony Alpha 350 with 14 megapixels. It’s amazing what a bigger Sensor can do.

CanonEOS450D.zip (17 MB)

SonyAlpha350.zip (24 MB)

Starting at ISO 400 the Sony DSC-T700 provides very limited quality.

SonyCybershotDSC-T700.zip (15 MB)

Future cameras will always be a compromise between compactness on the one hand and image quality on the other. By the way that is what limits the image quality of cell phone cameras.

After Photokina we will add more images.

A reaction to “Compare your BIOS Pixel images with those taken with some reference cameras”

  1. Kylie Batt

    Много наподбирали,спс….

    Аниматор In order to judge the quality of your camera you can find images taken with several cameras as a reference…..

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