I made an 8x10 of one of the Great Blue Heron images yesterday. It was
cropped and after a bit of math I figured the uncropped image would have
been around a 12x16 image. I was in shock when I realized this as the
quality of the image is outstanding, certainly far better than anything I
could achieve with ISO800 film. I know that part of the reason for this is
the high resolution of the Takahashi refractor and I did choose to use Noise
Ninja to reduce a bit of the noise though I only used a setting of 3 on the
Luminance Strength where 10 is the default... very little smoothing was
done.
I believe I mentioned earlier in this forum that I felt Olympus achieved its
objective of creating a camera that produced results that rivaled or were
slightly better than those produced by 35mm film. I feel stronger than ever
about this now. I know that there are differences between a digital image
and one produced from film and we could argue till the cows come home on the
pros and cons of each and which medium is better but I don't think anyone
can argue the fact that Olympus produced one heck of a camera in the E-1. I
wonder what the future will bring?
Richard
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