Canon SX10 sensor size
Oct 13, 2011 13:56:49 #
I have a Canon SX10 which does everything I want. However my buy-up friends keep pushing me to a "real" DSLR with a bigger sensor. Question: Does anybody know how my current sensor compares in size to what I would get on a Canon t3i or Nikon D5100? I can't believe that what I am currently using is as small as a pocket point 'n shoot as some are telling me.
Oct 13, 2011 15:38:10 #
Your P&S, and many more, has a relatively small sensor compared to, as your friends say, a "real" DSLR - 6.17x4.55mm as opposed to the APS-C sensor found in 90% of all DSLRs, at 25.1x16.7 or the actual "full frame" sensor found in mostly high-end cameras like the Canon 5D at 36x24mm.
However, your SX-10 can take perfectly good pictures as is. If your friends are so darn set on you getting a 'real' DSLR, tell them to buy one for you.
However, your SX-10 can take perfectly good pictures as is. If your friends are so darn set on you getting a 'real' DSLR, tell them to buy one for you.
Oct 13, 2011 16:21:47 #
The sx10 has a 1/2.3 sensor.. Note it is not a 2/3" sensor.. but inside where the 1/2.5 area is.. 1/2.3" = (6.17 x 4.55 mm)
Here is how they compare..
Here is how they compare..
Oct 13, 2011 16:31:09 #
As Larry's fine diagram shows, there are many sensor sizes and nearly all of their descriptors are, at best, cryptic and at worst, idiotic. The "1/2.3" silliness means that one dimension the "4.55mm" is approximately 2/3rds of the other dimension, 6.17mm, thus 1/2.3. If you do the math, 1/3rd of 6.17 is 2.5 or so, and 4.10 is not quite 4.5 but if they were anything but idiots, they'd simply make them 1 by 1.5 inches or something.
You realize a 2x4 piece of wood is really 1.5 by 3.5, right?
You realize a 2x4 piece of wood is really 1.5 by 3.5, right?
Oct 13, 2011 17:36:31 #
Oct 13, 2011 17:39:50 #
Oct 14, 2011 06:34:49 #
I have an SX10 and I can live with it for the next 10 years! It is that good! The only reason, if ever, I would want anything else, is that it has poor video, compared to present standards.
Oct 14, 2011 11:18:13 #
I also have a SX10IS - very favorably impressed by it: the pictures I get from it, and the controls (spot meter for back lit photos especially). Don't particularly care for the digital eye piece viewer - good for otherwise undoable lighting situations, and no parallax, but what I see in it is rarely sharp.
Nov 14, 2011 12:40:43 #
LarryD wrote:
The sx10 has a 1/2.3 sensor.. Note it is not a 2/3" sensor.. but inside where the 1/2.5 area is.. 1/2.3" = (6.17 x 4.55 mm)
Here is how they compare..
Here is how they compare..
good chart Larry;
The foveon (sigma) reference is somewhat misleading in that usually size relates to better capture, but the inherent better quality of a 'foveon' type sensor capturing 100% of the color image vs. 1/3 capture of "normal" dlsr's but does it justice by showing its size compared to larger sensors.
terry
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