Hi C.H.Ling,
Certainly if the E-1 images are underexposed and you push up to 1.5
stops (at least with Raw Developer) under ISO 400, the processed image
is really good. No banding, little noise and excellent overall
appearance. The main problem if you had overexposed. Anything over 0.3
EV is lost. E-1 have a nice shadow detail. I don´t have an E-3 but I
have processed RAW images and they have more highlight detail and the
worst from E-3 is banding and lot of noise in the shadows. I don´t know
how many stops of dynamic range has the Olympus E-1 but if you have a
look to KAF-5101CE sheet you can see 67 dB of linear dynamic range. I
don´t know how to convert this value into stops.
According to DPreview. E-3 has 9 stops of dynamic range at ISO 200.
Certainly, not bad!!!
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/olympuse3/page21.asp
I don´t know if E-1 has 9 stops of dynamic range.
Regards,
David Irisarri
C.H.Ling escribió:
> I'm not sure if E-3 has wider dynamic range than E-1, based on my experience
> it is not. One thing for sure is E-3 has much poorer RAW highlight headroom,
> it almost cannot recover anything if you got over exposure.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Irisarri"
>
> Hi,
>
> E-3 is much better than E-1 in nearly all features and certainly it
> seems E-3 only underexposes 0.3EV against 0.7EV of E-1. E-3 has much
> wider dynamic range and broader in highlights than E-1.
> OM4ti was perfect! I was really in love with this camera. Multispot
> metering was a dream.
> When I switched to E-1, I decided to use center-weighted but IMHO this
> type of light metering cannot be used with narrow highligh exposure
> latitute because you are blowing highlights. Then I started to use the
> 49 cell matrix metering and it copes much better with highlights but
> underexposes 0.7EV aprox.
> I would like to see a camera with different type of color reversal film
> emulations, different type of contrast curves (I hate +1, +2 , etc...)
> (it would be very nice to upload Photoshop curves in your camera) and a
> sensor with enough dynamic range in order to get what you see with your
> camera. I think Olympus is going in this line as they have created a
> very strong TruePIC III+ processor with a faster processing engine. They
> are applying filters in E-30 but I am pretty sure E-4 will bring us
> broader features to avoid this odd Raw Processing odd routine. Raw
> processing is nice but sometimes is a pain in the neck. I miss
> projecting my perfect exposed Ektachrome slides in my wall. Do you
> understand me?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
>
>
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