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Re: [OM] Flower Image - The E-1 Still Provides Fine Images

Subject: Re: [OM] Flower Image - The E-1 Still Provides Fine Images
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 20:45:38 -0500
Amen!

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Ken Norton" <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 02, 2010 7:07 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] Flower Image - The E-1 Still Provides Fine Images


> >
>> Image quality is fine as long as you don't need high ISO or high res.
>>
>
>
> Well, as far as high ISO is concerned, there are tricks that you can play 
> to
> get the image quality looking pretty good. Other cameras have some mighty
> fine high-ISO performance, but in nearly every case the dynamic range is
> limited or the color/saturation/sharpness starts to go to pot.
>
> The laws of physics still apply. When you try to duplicate some of the 
> fancy
> processing that other cameras do and limit the
> color/saturation/sharpness/dynamic range of the E-1 files to match the
> others, the difference in high-ISO performance isn't quite as radical as
> you'd expect. When massaged, the E-1 files are comparable to the Canon 40D
> at one ISO grade faster. Inotherwords, my ISO 400 files look like 40D ISO
> 800 files. Without the massaging, the difference is at least two ISO 
> grades.
> At ISO 1600 or 3200, neither camera give "excellent" results, but the 
> Canon
> files are easier to deal with.  At the native ISOs, the Canon is perfectly
> clean with absolutely no texture, whereas the E-1 always has some noise
> present.
>
> To each his/her own, but I prefer a litle bit of texture to my pictures. I
> know there are a couple of people on this list that wig out at the sight 
> of
> anything other than glossy-clean window on the world, but I personally 
> don't
> get all that bothered about it.
>
> AG (wigless) Schnozz
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