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Originally Posted by carman
The area of the sensor is not the power of the crop.
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Carman, the question here is not what crop is or is not. My point is Olympus deliberately cheats in their advertisement, utilizing the ignorance of consumers making them think they are buying the same "Full frame" sensor that canon on their 5D and 1Ds MII sells from 3000 to 8000 dollar, when in reality they sell even a smaller, cheaper sensor, to be precise, 1/4 the area of a true full frame sensor and even smaller than most other inexpensive DSLRs such as Nikon's D50 D70, Canon's XT etc. What they do is using a smaller sensor that has half of normal old film SLR frame size while keeping the same ratio, meaning 35x24mm (Old film size that is used as standard nomenclature for Full Frame) Olympus' sensor size = 35/2 x 24/2 , both keeping the 4x3 ratio(The almost simplified ratio of 35 and 24), and call the down size version Full frame or at best Full frame crop...
Make a long story short, despite my old deep rooted love for Olympus, must say shame on them or more correctly, shame on their marketing administration.