Just a bit of fun...
After reading a comment on the forum yesterday about how noisy Panny sensors are I shot off a few test shots in a dark room with my G1+25mm f0.95 and 5D+50mm f1.4 and as I said, just for fun...
I set both cameras to ISO 3200 and their max apertures. The 5D+50mm couldn't achieve focus and I couldn't even focus manually as it was so dark. I did notice that there was a very slight difference between what I saw by eye and what I saw when looking through the 5D+50mm @f1.4, the camera view being very slightly darker. I therefore had to just focus by distance and even this was a guess. Things were much easier with the G1 for two reasons, firstly I was @f0.95 and also because the display gain allowed me to actually see much more detail than I could see by eye.
Here are the results...
5D whole image.
5D 100% crop, I was trying to focus on the penguins eye.
G1 whole image.
G1 100% crop, again the eye was the target.
These were done in CS5, both had the same slight boost to contrast and saturation and as both cameras produced images that were too bright both have had the darks backed off until it looks a bit more natural although these are still really too bright and show more detail than I could see by eye. NR is just what CS5 set as default.
These aren't real world images as I don't normally shoot in the dark but I thought it'd be fun to do as I keep reading how noisy MFT images are
I did have a few problems myself when I first got my GF1 with this shot in particular...
GF1, handheld @ISO 1600.
But once I realised that the image was way too bright and backed the darks off to give a more natural look it looks fine to me. Again NR is just what CS5 does and I've done no more.
Just in case these could be said to be less noisy bacause they're taken in almost total darkness here's a handheld GF1 ISO 1600 in street conditions, again, just default NR.
I don't think that MFT is as bad as some say