<begin rant>
This sample image posted by DPReview (warning: huge file) is of the E-P1
with the new 17m lens at ISO 200 at f/6.3:
http://a.img-dpreview.com/gallery/olympusep1_preview2/originals/p6160172.jpg
It exhibits pathetic chromatic abberation, and this at f/6.3! I really
hope this is not representative of that 17mm lens, thus far I am greatly
unimpressed. I mean, come on, they should have AT LEAST made it an f/
2.0 lens
(since this is a camera with no built-in flash) and the lens
performance looks
absolutely crap. My 1976 OM-system 24mm f/2.0 with yellowed elements
is in a
complete other league to what I see here. The performance shown here
would have
been "OK" if this was a small and cheap f/1.4 lens, but a 35mm-equiv
non-retrofocus
f/2.8 lens is kinda hard to mess up, don't you think? For example,
take the
(much smaller and cheaper) Voigtlander 35mm f/2.5 Skopar (for Leica M-
Mount)
pancake lens - it's faster, and renders a *much* better image, and
it's an ancient
design. In fact, I'd take the ISO 800 *film* image below (disclaimer:
not my images)
any day over the ISO 200 E-P1 image with the 17mm.
http://www.pbase.com/mbnm57/image/91849557/original
http://www.pbase.com/image/91851700
Also, the noise at ISO 200 is exceptionally poor, the image quality
looks at about the same level as a Canon G10 uber point-n-shoot
(especially if you down-size the G10's image to 12MP, remember it is
15MP
packaged into a much much smaller sensor).
I am, again, thoroughly unimpressed by Olympus' latest effort, nice as
the
camera looks. The produced image looks like complete rubbish compared to
what I am getting with my OM cameras on film, as well as absolutely
incomparable
in every respect to what I got with my 2004 Canon 1D MkII Digital SLR
of five years of sensor design earlier. Not to mention a Canon 16-35mm
f/2.8
zoom which, based on the sample I linked to at the top, is a much much
better lens than the Zuiko prime. Come on - I though Olympus still
knew how
to make innovative lenses?
No thanks (for now).
</end rant>
On 17 Jun 2009, at 12:54 PM, Wayne Harridge wrote:
> Nothing there to write home about.
>
> ...Wayne
>
> Wayne Harridge
> http://lrh.structuregraphs.com/
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: AS [mailto:alizookoman@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Wednesday, 17 June 2009 1:02 PM
>> To: Olympus Camera Discussion
>> Subject: [OM] Sample images taken with EP-1
>>
>>
>> Again not sure if you can see this but the Oly Facebook group has
>> posted sample images taken with the EP-1:
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?
>> pid=2799008&id=63355899492&
>> ref=nf
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?
>> pid=2798932&id=63355899492&
>> ref=nf
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?
>> pid=2798933&id=63355899492&
>> ref=nf
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?
>> pid=2798934&id=63355899492&
>> ref=nf
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?
>> pid=2798935&id=63355899492&
>> ref=nf
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?
>> pid=2798937&id=63355899492&
>> ref=nf
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?
>> pid=2799010&id=63355899492&
>> ref=nf
>>
>> BEAUTY!! Many of the photos are people holding the lil beauty...some
>> have the flash attached. Looks sweet!!
>>
>>
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