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Olympus PEN E-PL5
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DxOMark Sensor Scores

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Overall Score[?]
72
Portrait
(Color Depth)[?]
22.8 bits
Landscape
(Dynamic Range)[?]
12.3 Evs
Sports
(Low-Light ISO)[?]
889 ISO

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Type Hybrid 
Announced 2012-09-17 
Indicative price (USD) 699  
Sensor type CMOS 
Resolution 4640 x 3472  
Sensor photo detectors (Mpix) 16.11  
Sensor size (mm) 13.0 x 17.3 
Color filter array RGB 
Pixel pitch (µm) 3.73  
Bits per pixel 12.0 
Focal length multiplier 2.00 
Aspect Ratio 4:3 
ISO latitude  100 - 25600 
Shutter type Mechanical 
Fastest - Slowest speed (s) 1/4000 - 30.0  
Frame rate (fps) 8.0  
Live view  Yes 
Stabilization  Yes 
Firmware  
Dust cleaningYes 
Mount typeMicro 4/3  
Weight (gr) 279  
Battery type  
Battery weight (gr) 44 
Tropicalization 0 - 40? (operation) / -20 - 60? (storage), 30 - 90% (operation) / 10 - 90% (storage) 
Camera material Metal 
Mount material Metal 
View finder type  
View finder magnification  
View finder coverage  
Mirror lockup  
View finder diopter  
Monitor type LCD 
Monitor size 3 
Monitor pixel 460000 
Articulated screen Yes 
Touch screen Yes 
Contrast screen  
Low-pass filter  
Focus mode Yes 
Autofocus modes Single AF (S-AF) / Continuous AF (C-AF)/ Manual Focus (MF) / S-AF + MF / AF tracking (C-AF + TR) 
Number of autofocus points 35 
Exposure bracketing Yes 
Exposure compensation +/- 3 EV in 1/3, 1/2, 1 EV steps selectable 
Drive modes Single-frame shooting, Sequential shooting, Self-timer 
Buffer size 27 (RAW), Unlimited (JPEG) 
Recording medium SD, SDHC, SDXC 
Image format JPEG, RAW(ORF) 
White balance bracketing Yes 
Connectivity USB2.0, micro HDMI, NTSC/PAL 
Bluetooth No 
3G No 
Sound recording Yes 
External micro Yes 
Histogram Yes 
GPS No 
Video Yes 
Maximum format image video 1920x1080/30 fps 
Full HD Yes 
Live autofocus Yes 
Video file format MOV, AVI 
Video codec MPEG-4AVC/H.264, Motion JPEG 
Video stabilisation  

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Color response
Sensitivity metamerism index
ISO 17321 		80
 
White balance scales R raw 2
G raw 1
B raw 1.88
 
    R sRGB G sRGB B sRGB
Color matrix as defined in ISO standard 17321 R raw 1.97 -0.83 -0.14
G raw -0.25 1.65 -0.4
B raw 0.12 -0.67 1.55

Full Color Sensitivity: Noise covariance ellipses in CIE 1931 Lab color space
Select ISO : 200
(ISO are manufacturer ISO)
 
Select luminance : 30








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Comments
Added by Toshik |  November 18, 2012

incorrection

[quote]The comfortable lead that this Olympus micro 4:3 sensor enjoys in our test results with respect to the Nikon’s first-generation 1" sensor is very likely to be upset by [b]the new Nikon 20Mpix sensor used in its recently-announced V2 model[/b]".[/quote]

[url=http://www.dxomark.com/index.php/Cameras/Camera-Sensor-Database/Nikon/1-V2]Nikon V2 has 14Mpix sensor[/url].

Where did you find information about 20Mpix?

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Added by AaronMC |  November 16, 2012

Yay!

I'm very happy with this. Yet again, we see a slight increase in ISO performance when the AA filter is removed. I would really appreciate some input from the DxO crew as to why this is the case.

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Added by ABurbank |  November 18, 2012

Re: Yay!

Isn't it obvious? You remove a piece of glass, you get more transmission and so you can now get, say, ISO 89 performance at ISO 100. Re-calibrate the sensor to be in line with the ISO standard, and voila, you get less noise.

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