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From: "Dawid Loubser" <dawidl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 2:41 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] (OT) G12
> On 25 Oct 2010, at 12:32 AM, John Hudson wrote:
>
>> What interests me, and what provoked my original question /
>> observation, is
>> the relative contribution provided by the camera lens to the
>> generation of
>> the latent image.
>>
>> On a side by side comparison of two large hard copy prints, one
>> generated by
>> a "high end" Zuiko film camera lens and one generated by a lens on
>> the G12,
>> which one would be an obljectively judged better print [colour
>> rendition,
>> sharpness, etc, etc].
>
> Hi John,
>
> If you throw certain possibilities of image "aesthetics" out of the
> window (such
> as shallow DOF, very wide or narrow angles of view, etc) it is my
> opinion (and
> I hate to say this, since I won't touch the little thing...) that a
> G12 will
> yield an infinitely cleaner printed image at large-ish sizes, than
> almost any
> film Olympus OM shot.
This is the biggest piece of hogwash I have ever, repeat ever, read on this
internet discussion list.
jh
>
> I say this, because I have a large (80cm on a side) printed image made
> from a
> 3MP Sony P&S (oh, the horror!!!) which I have never even been close to
> emulate
> from an "apparent clarity" point of view with my OMs and the darkroom.
>
> I sometimes shoot very slow film (ISO50, ISO32...) and I certainly
> have examples
> of the best OM glass (21/2, 90/2, 250/2).
>
> Still, what a digital P&S (or even DSLR) shot makes up for in
> cleanness and
> "breadth", it severely lacks in "depth". Dynamic range, and "solidity
> of rendering"
> (whatever these things mean to you, they are just the words that come
> to mind) are
> sorely lacking compared to even grainy film shots, most of the time.
>
> However, if you put a good OM zuiko on a good digital body (Canon 5D
> or 1Ds) I
> believe there will, in most cases, be no comparison - the Zuikos will
> win every time.
>
> You will probably have to stop your OM lens down quite a bit, both to
> get the equivalent DOF
> that the little canon pint-sized lens has wide open, as well as the
> fact that that little
> canon lens is already almost diffraction-limited on the G11/12 body,
> i.e. stopping it down
> past one or two stops only decreases resolution.
>
> When you start talking about my ideas of image easthetics, involving
> shooting the OM
> lenses wide open at f/2, you can fuhgeddaboudit - the Canon isn't even
> an option.
>
> regards,
> Dawid
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