I did about 200 more shots today and came to some conclusions about sports and
the E-1.
1. In the full sun, I used Contrast at -2 and a +1/2 Exposure Comp to open up
the shadows. This worked nicely.
2. I shifted to center-weighted metering, which seemed to prevent the camera
from reading some white areas too much.
3. When you use continuous focusing and set the camera to not release the
shutter until it achieves focus, it cuts the effective frame-rate to much less
than 3 fps. So for my purposes, I moved to single AF mode and continuously
re-focused for my shots. I just had to realize that if my subject was coming
towards me, I had to re-focus for each shot. The good thing is that the camera
wouldn't take the picture until the subject was in focus in both modes. I also
get a full 3 fps in single AF mode.
4. I was using Aperture priority yesterday, but moved to Program-shift today,
which provided more flexibility, as I then had no chance for the camera to run
out of shutter speeds.
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>Subject: [OM] Re: Sports with the E-1: results and opinions
> From: AG Schnozz <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sun, 9 May 2004 07:39:15 -0700 (PDT)
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
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>What I'm noticing is the E-1's noise and colour.
>
>Very nice. It has the most "film-like" noise structure I think
>I've seen in a digital. It really does look like film. The
>color processing engine is also pretty good. I like the
>skintones.
>
>That focus tracking feature for sports is pretty nice, but even
>the megapoint versions found on high-end Nikons and Canons
>doesn't always keep up.
>
>I do think there just might be an E2/E3 in my future. My
>100/2.8 is just screaming for action.
>
>AG
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