| "We struggled considerably with how to set fundamental quality," tells Takuro Naito who was in charge of picture quality design. "As a result, picture quality maintains the resolution from the center to the peripheries and there is low noise on top of that," he adds.
However, there is always the risk of "expressionless image quality" because resolution is lost in a tradeoff with noise reduction. "The adjustment was hard," notes Naito. "With some subjects, you get a sense of texture with no more than the necessary level of noise processing. So, we incorporated a feature that lets users turn noise reduction on/off. And, it can be turned on/off automatically at user-selected ISO's." Incorporating these capabilities made it even more interesting as a digital camera.
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"We pursued low noise picture quality of high resolution through the peripheral areas of the image." (Takuro Naito)
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