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Subject: [OM] Re: Woe is Me - Bridge Camera Fallout
From: David Cochran <cochran@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 21:49:58 -0400
Hi Skip:

Please explain what you mean by "mediocre 3fps speed on the E-1.
Compared to what?

peace

David


> 
> The high ISO noise is my biggest concern regarding the E-1.  I can handle the
> mediocre 3fps speed, I can handle the limited lens selection.  But I'm
> concerned about the noise.
> 
> I shoot a lot of middle-school basketball in dim gyms where I use Fuji Press
> 800 pushed to 1600.  That gives me 1/250 at f/2.8 at the best gyms and 1/60 at
> the worst ones.  The typical combo is 1/125 at f/2.8 for most of the night
> games at 1600.  My best shots were with a borrowed Nikon 70-200/2.8 VR lens on
> an F5.  I've also took quite a few with an OM4t + 90/2 macro and a Canon A2 +
> 85/1.8 USM.  The AF on the Nikon and Canon bodies was far too good to ignore.
> I set the cameras on focus-release priority (where the shutter will only fire
> if the subject is in focus), and I got 75-80% keepers.  With MF, the
> percentage is down to 50% and I have to confine myself to less aggressive
> action.  I NEED autofocus.
> 
> But the images with the 90/2 were very, very nice; at least the ones that were
> in focus. :-o
> 
> I'm going to go to one of the big NYC camera stores soon and shoot some E-1
> test shots at high ISO's soon to see what it's like.
> 
> I don't relish having to post-process all my shots, although I guess that I
> could do it in batch mode.  I haven't been too impressed with the noise
> reduction results so far with SOTA programs like Neat Image.  They tend to
> make the images look weird.  (This could also be operator error.)
> 
> I want to take the pictures with a DSLR and have them come right out of the
> camera onto a printer.  Is that too much to ask?
> 
> Skip


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