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The video on top shows the great Ricoh GR vs. Nikon Coolpix A Shootout made by the nice guys from TheCameraStoreTV.
With the newly announced Ricoh GR we now have many compact cameras having no Anti Aliasing filter on sensor. Three cameras, the Nikon Coolpix A, Sigma DP1 and Ricoh GR Merrill have been now tested by DSLRmagazine (google translation here). As you know having no AA filter causes the well known Moirè effect. So which camera suffers less form it? Easy guess you would say…it’s the foveon sensor from the Sigma of course! Too bad the Sigma sucks when it comes to ta
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And one thing they didn’t test or mention on the video is the quality of the lens in each camera. And there the Ricoh, when wide open, has a big advantage. I posted some shots from imaging-resource.com some days ago which showed this difference, but here is another test done by dsrl-check.info:
http://dslr-check.info/2013/0524.jpg
Milan, maybe you should explore a little more in depth the site: reviews for the Sigma and Nikon lenses are already published some time ago. Hope the one for the GR is on the works.
Cheers
Sorry, editor, but there are more compact cameras without AA filter: Sigma DP2M and DP3M, Fuji X20 and X100s.
Ricoh GR Merril, eh? Interesting.
Regarding that “sucking” Foveon beastie, could it be you guys only shoot jpgs?
Only have the GR and Sigma but have to say handling of the Sigma is fine – have you tried it ? Agree high ISO is no good – but hey for us that are used to shoot film – ISO 400 is fine.
It seems that also OMD-Em5 has no filter, stating from a Pekka Potka post on his blog. Ok, it’s a ICL camera, therefore out of the group.