Yeah! Let´s do it and show the charts to everyone. It took me too many hours
to generate them. Norman Koren (The Imatest programmer) told me he was
amazed with KODAK KAF-5101 sensor!
Shadow information is awesome. Yeah!!! Highlight EV is very narrow. I think
is the reason why E-1 underexposes.
I am pretty sure many people thinks E-3 had wider dynamic range compared to
E-1. :)
I used to work with highlight recovery but know I prefer to underexpose with
E-1 and adjust exposure under Olympus Viewer 2. It gives you a more natural
appearance. Something I really like of E-P1 is live view. Seeing histogram
in realtime gives you a amazing control over exposure.
Dave
2010/9/17 Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 14-54 MFT lens. Fast AF, same speed as E-1 works for me. Please NO
> CHROMATIC
> > ABERRATION!!! A new sensor with the same dynamic range of E-1. (Ken we
> have
> > to publish E-1 dynamic range test!) I think many people will be amazed
> with
> > the results! KODAK is the only one! That´s it!!! I don´t need anything
> else.
>
>
> David, as soon as both of us have a few hours to devote to this, let's
> do it. I've looked at your charts enough to figure out some of the
> information and I know it matches my own experience. Anybody who says
> the E-1 lacks dynamic range is severely clue-impaired.
>
> I've ragged on Olympus this week regarding the Penta-E, but the E-1 is
> one of those one-of-a-kind cameras with an image-quality, color and
> dynamic range which just keeps me asking it for more. When you crank
> the colors up, they look natural--they don't go all nuclear on you.
>
> In fact, two nights ago, I was shooting a low-sun lit farmscape with
> stormy looking clouds. Way cool. At some point during the processing
> in Lightroom, the L1 files took on that in-your-face HDR with
> Saturation turned to 11, Ken Rockwell look. I went to back things off
> and realized that the settings were flat! With the E-1, scenes like
> this only go Rockwellian if I crank the snot out of the settings. And
> this is with RAW files, not JPEGs.
>
> It's funny when you do highlight-recovery with these cameras. The
> Minolta A1 has easily the most useful (and necessary)
> highlight-recovery of my three cameras, but shadow noise can get nasty
> in a hurry. The L1 has excellent highlight-recovery up to a point--but
> there is a problem which I'll get to in a second. The E-1 doesn't
> allow you to recover quite as much highlight, but where it falls over
> the top, it's gentle. Oh, and no matter how dark the shadows are
> (black?) if you crank the shadow recovery up high enough you get
> perfectly natural colors.
>
> In the world of digital audio, we have a very important tool in our
> kit. It's called "dithering". In essence what it does is masks
> bit-level distortion and artifacts with noise. If you look at an ISO
> 100 shot with full tonal gradient taken with the E-1, you'll see noise
> at every brightness value. The L1? Clean as a whistle. This is right
> in the RAW files--not JPEGs. When you do a highlight recovery, where
> the resulting tonal gradient goes from 255 to 254, the L1 is extremely
> harsh. With the E-1, you never see that sharp transition because the
> image has enough "dither" to it that no two adjacent pixels will have
> the same value.
>
> AG
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