When Olympus announced the flagship OM-D E-M5 compact system camera last February, rumors immediately began swirling. With an effective resolution of 16.1 megapixels, the Olympus E-M5's imager sets a new high tide mark for the company, offering the greatest resolution of any Olympus mirrorless model to date. Which sensor supplier, though, was the source of its image sensor? Perhaps understandably, some identified the sensor used in Micro Four Thirds partner Panasonic's Lumix GH2 as a likely candidate, its output resolution being identical. Others suggested that the more recent sensor used...
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