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Message: <blockquote data-quote="macshark" data-source="post: 1563841" data-attributes="member: 38208">Looks like the new G11 and S90 use this 10MP sensor from Sony:<a href="http://www.sony.net/Products/SC-HP/cx_news/vol57/pdf/icx685cqz.pdf" target="_blank">icx685cqz datasheet</a> (PDF)Datasheet has some interesting information about improved sensitivity and saturation compared to existing CCD sensors from Sony. After scaling for pixel area, etc, it is reasonable to expect about 1 f-stop better sensitivity and slightly more than 1 f-stop dynamic range improvement compared to G10. I believe Canon press release is claiming more improvement than this, but this is probably due to improved RAW processing and noise reduction algorithms that are implemented in G11.I would expect G11 and S90 to generate pretty decent images at ISO400 in terms of noise and DR. S90 also comes with a faster lens, so it will be particularly interesting to see how it work for digiscoping...It is very likely that the recently announced Ricoh GR III is also using the same Sony sensor. There are some ISO400 and ISO1600 sample images at Ricoh's Japanese website:<a href="http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/special/20090805_307174.html" target="_blank">http://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/review/special/20090805_307174.html</a>More sample images are from a Rich GR III test which uses the same sensor:<a href="http://www.photographyblog.com/.../ricoh_gr_digital_iii_review/sample_images/" target="_blank">http://www.photographyblog.com/.../ricoh_gr_digital_iii_review/sample_images/</a>ISO400 looks quite good.</blockquote>

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