Chuck, I do appreciate what you are saying about the grain thing. I
personally find grain undesirable when it either masks image details
or draws the eye away from the details. Let's take a wedding portrait,
for example, the last thing you want is grain masking.
But to pick on my gate photo, where I THINK it works is in the expanse
of focus blurring where there is no detail to mask and what is there
is better off being masked.
The one thing I've really liked about the E1 photos is the ever
present texture of grain-like noise which seems to give the image bite
without resorting to over-sharpening. Ultra-clean images seem to need
a lot of sharpening to give the same pop. The E1 portraits can usually
be printed straight.
YMMV
AG
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