Or the pins of the memory chips directly below the C2001 ATI mark - where did the red, green and blue pins come from?

Above the pink toy train, there is a sheet with some text. See that Pany text is almost unreadable in font 5, white letters on black background. Now switch to the Canon image and check out the brutal sharpening artifacts. The image looks clearer, because of PP, but again unreadable.

LOL!!! i just love the deathly hush after M5-User's post... oh hey, kids... chew on this for a bit too.

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/read.asp?forum=1010&message=40301470

thanks for the link

the canon is impressive  at 12 800 , and the gx1 shows just how much panny and oly both need to work on their sensors high iso perf

heres the thing at low to medium ISO they mostly all can carry water,

but what i enjoyed most for the high iso comparisons was the way the iso performance even bested , significantly, the much praised sensor from Sony nex 5n , a result that pleases me greatly  and validates my high opinion of the x 100s high ISO perf
which no apsc can touch IMHO

the corners are so awful, so amazingly awful...

I think Canon underestimates their fans, it seems like a pretty good entry with a large sensor (Imagine, a 4/3 sensor being called Large!), I have been reading a few forums about this camera..
2 huge mistakes it seems from all the chatter:

• Too slow a zoom
• Not wide enough at the short end

Oh yea, too high a MSRP

The lens can be software corrected, so that is not a real issue for many.

but those corners...did you see? you cant correct that

I assume the Canon Software should correct. I could and may be wrong... it has happened before 

+1, that kind of "blurring" is unfixable. Its like extreme diffraction, no amount of sharpening can fix it

Well, DPR has a "Preview" ready, and a comparison of sensor sizes.

Canon G1-X

It is a bit bigger than the Panasonic GX-1 even though it has a sensor that is a 4/3 sensor in size, even bigger than the G3 that has an EVF in an DSLR style body.

So, Canon still has a long way to go make cameras smaller in an m4/3 market.

That thing is huge.

All in all, a couple of years ago a camera that size with a sensor that big AND  zoom lens that long to boot would have been unbelievable. High ISO performance is good, not unbelievable but very good indeed. The body is well laid out and small for all it offers (some people see the attached lens as a big plus). The downsides are the slow lens (although it is 2.8 at the "wide" end), the wide end is not so wide, the insane price, the horrendous ovf (it is horrendous), and most importantly...those corners. They're not just soft like every lens in history, they're smashed to hell and beyond, way over acceptable, and they'll only get worse when the very pronounced barrel distortion is corrected.

Still, Canon fans are opening up churches and carving up monuments for it (really, go read some of the forums) claiming the absolute death of m4/3s. They're defending it to the death and have already made pre orders. There's a guy over at dpreview who pre ordered 3, think about it, he could have bought a 5d2 and have left over money. Heck, there's one of those fanboys that wrote right here...

The 1 year and 3 month old GH2 beats the bigger sensored G1X in dynamic range and high ISO, according to DxO mark, and it matches it in color depth. We already know how the corners look like soooo, ouch canon..
I suspect the OM D will smash it to the ground, and the GH3 will pee on its ashes.

http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Cameras/Compare-Camera-Sensors/Compare-cameras-side-by-side/%28appareil1%29/769|0/%28brand%29/Canon/%28appareil2%29/754|0/%28brand2%29/Panasonic/%28appareil3%29/677|0/%28brand3%29/Panasonic

Quote from: lisandra on January 31, 2012, 07:05:21 PM

I suspect the OM D will smash it to the ground, and the GH3 will pee on its ashes.

 

Don't forget a damning video with the OM-D of the GH3 peeing on it to show the troops!