Micro 4 3 Sensor Size Comparison

Panasonic cameras such as the lumix gf5 and offerings from olympus including the pen series and the omd em 5 use a micro four thirds 4 3 inch 17 3 x 13 mm sensor.

Micro 4 3 sensor size comparison.

I wouldn t recommend a micro 4 3 if you are looking for a high quality performing camera. See how much difference there is in the medium full frame aps c and micro 4 3 sensors. In fact as shown on the left the difference is even smaller than the difference between full size and aps c and the micro four thirds sensor is massive compared to popular compact camera sensors. Considering all of them are.

I have a nikon dslr and it blows the low light performance of my micro 4 3 camera out of the water even using similarly slow glass. This illustration compares digital camera sensor sizes. Initially i expected that the aps c sensor would perform better but it fell short. Special thanks to our friends at lensprotogo and datacolor for helping us make this comparison possible.

There is a common misconception that there is a big difference between the sizes of aps c and micro four thirds sensors. Hasselblad x1d ii 50c sony a7r iv sony a6600 and panasonic gh5. Full frame 35mm which is actually 36mm wide aps c micro four thirds 1 inch 1 1 7 and 1 2 5 type. It is around 9 times larger than the 1 2 3 sensors typically used in compact digital cameras.

Zeus if you have had the benefit of a full frame sensor it s doubtful you will be happy with low light performance below the aps c sensor size. Below compare sensor sizes for digital cameras. For the comparison they took those 12 shots three per camera and fixed the exposure in post to see how much information each sensor was able to retain in both over and under exposed areas. 220 mm is approximately 30 less than the aps c sensors used in other manufacturers dslrs.

The image sensor of four thirds and mft measures 18 mm 13 5 mm 22 5 mm diagonal with an imaging area of 17 3 mm 13 0 mm 21 6 mm diagonal comparable to the frame size of 110 film.