Dan Benjamin

DxOMark Sensor Ranks Cameras Based on Real-Life Scenarios

18 November 2008 • Tags: cameras, gear, photography

For all of you camera geeks out there:

DxO Labs has developed a new scale for digital camera image quality performance, called DxOMark Sensor, to serve as an additional tool to help photographers rank and compare digital cameras.

This scale is based on three underlying metrics, Color Depth, Dynamic Range and Low-Light ISO, each one tied to a real-life photographic scenario: landscape, studio & portrait, and photojournalism & sport.

You can play with the interactive graph to see the ranking for about 50 digital cameras to see how yours compares, changing the x-axis for time, price, and resolution, and filter by brand, sensor size, and more. Pretty cool.