Small cameras with large sensors.

For great photos you do not need giant camera - compact exotics like the Sigma DP1, Leica M8 and Fujifilm S100 show that high image quality even in the absence of reflex succeed. blogs ONLINE compares Three extraordinary cameras.

 

It sounds absurd: Every year manufacturer outdo itself with hundreds of new digital camera models, but to an actually quite obvious that none dares project - a compact camera with a large image sensor and good optics, the exceptionally good pictures, even at dusk.

For years photographers complain so that the sensors in the compact and also the blog almost reflexively large bridge cameras are tiny. The result: The closer to the photo diodes on the sensor each other, the stronger disturbances like noise on the digital image.

But instead of looking for ways to larger sensors in compact cameras installed, use the various software manufacturers tricks that the noise even when saving a recording in the camera herauszurechnen. Often suffer but sharpness and detail of the images.

It is also different: It is technically possible, larger sensors in small cameras to construction. That - and the related technical compromises - demonstrated a few camera models with exotic status. The Sigma DP1, Leica M8 and Fujifilm S100 are designed very different niches, but all show how much space to maneuver away from the camera designers have put an outline:

Reflex (large, expensive and generally better)
Click (once cheap, sometimes expensive, mixed picture, but always a compromise)
Bridge (longer focal length than the Compact, the same image problems)

Rangefinder, triple-layer sensor, Fixed focal length - blogs ONLINE compares the digital exotics.