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And who the heck are Popphoto?

Popular Photography publish ISO noise numbers which combine both less objectionable fine grained luminious noise with objectionalbe cromatic noise with the result that Pany models do not show well as they correct primarily the chromatic noise. If you think this is not important just note the very high 2570 lines resolution posted by the G3 compared to only 2250 lines resolution from the A35 model with APSC 16 mh sensor and G3 still gets 2499 lines resolution at high ISO 6400! The G3 produces very good quality pictures in both JPEGs and even better in RAW without loss of detail due to excessive noise reduction employed by many other manufactures models and after all noise is supposed to reduce detail? Resolution figures are a truer indication of the picture quality than the noise measurements reported by PP. Most other reviews note that G3 has lower effective noise and hence much better high ISO performance than any previous 4/3 models.

Thus at high ISOs the G3 is producing pictures with at least 20% higher resolution compared to even other 16mp APSC DSLR models! The difference may be reflected by its higher quality kit lenses used for these comparisons. You can readily see that G3 has superior detail retention at high ISOs compared to most other models listed on DPRs review test comparisons.