When Sony invested more than $600 million into Olympus in late 2012, everyone assumed that would mean that Olympus would be using Sony sensors for most of its cameras. The OM-D E-M5 used a Sony sensor, and had some of the best performance for Micro Four Thirds camera available. But Chipworks has discovered something fascinating: the followup OM-D E-M1, which had even better image quality than the E-M5, has a sensor that's made by Panasonic, not Sony. Chipworks specializes in taking apart gadgets, and figuring out where all the...
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