Sharpening is a normal part of digital image processing. You can't
simply skip it and expect to get good results. I applied local contrast
enhancement (radius 50 at 20%) and a little sharpening (radius 1.5 and
100%) and your rose livened up considerably.
Chuck Norcutt
Brian Swale wrote:
> Hi all you Olympus users
>
> I have come to the conclusion that a good part of my dissatisfaction with the
> E-1 stems from the fact that the only DZ lens I have is the 14 - 45mm kit
> lens that came with the camera. It just does not deliver sharp images.
>
> Look at these two photographs of Ingrid Bergman; (rotated left one) resized
> to 1000 pixels wide (was height) with irfan view, saved at 85%.
>
> http://homepages.caverock.net.nz/~bj/photography/zuikoholics/recent5.htm
>
> I should get the 50mm macro and the 14-54. Sometime. When they are
> more affordable !!
>
> The story behind these two shots is like something from a Greek tragedy.
>
> I have an old friend - old in both senses of the word, now - who was in class
> with me at secondary school. An extremely talented guy. Or was.
>
> His wife is dying of cancer and has just a few weeks to live. He doesn't know
> exactly where she is (in a hospice somewhere in the same city), and he is
> now forbidden by law ( he has had a trespass order placed on him) to make
> any contact with her. Not that he was violent as far as I know - "just" a
> case
> of being severely alcoholic to the point that she couldn't stand it any more.
>
> I intend to send her a card, and he asked if I could send her a bunch of red
> roses, via me. I indicated they'd have a snow-ball's chance in hell of
> getting
> past the gate-keeper, but I would take some pics of red roses and include a
> couple of prints with the card, and hope they would get through. He never
> had the chance to say goodbye before the ambulance took her away. :-(
>
> There's more to the story than that, but that is the story behind the roses.
> Actually, I took more shots and these came from the second visit; I was so
> disappointed with the first set of shots.
>
> I can get sharper shots with the OM4Ti and any one of several Zuiko lenses,
> and Fuji Reala.
>
> Brian
>
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