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Originally Posted by Raist3d
Many people died for it, it's all I can say. We'll see what happens soon enough. I still wouldn't rule out a new sensor but I really doubt it. I am counting on something other than the sensor to boost the quality, but this last tidbit is my "hunch" which could be wrong.
- Raist
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Everything in my experience having worked in the semiconductor industry in the area of digital imaging is telling me that what we are going to get is the same sensor, probably bin selected for best noise response, and probably augmented in software for higher sensitivity and/or dynamic range to take advantage of the the better performance of the bin-selected sensors. I would bet that this is one of the major reasons that the high end body is significantly later than the E-410 and E-510 - it will take them several months to get a sufficient number of the better bin-grade sensors to bin out from the supply that they are getting for the less expensive bodies production runs. On a continuous basis, they could probably expect 3-5% of the sensors to bin out at a minimum of a full f-stop better than their nominal sensitivity/noise spec, which is probably more than adequate for an ongoing run rate - but not adequate for the initial spike that they will surely see at the beginning of the E-P1 lifetime due to pent-up demand. Hence the delay to build up a stockpile of the better bin-out sensors.