Hi C.H.Ling,
I am quite happy with 14-54 AF performance. This summer I made a
photographic session to my best friend´s nephews. Even in the
swimming-pool the camera focused tack sharp under the water
http://www.myfourthirds.com/document.php?id=50368 but I never use three
AF points. This is a real nuisance. I wonder how E-3 copes with 11
points. Something I really like from E-3 and I haven´t seen it yet is
you can see in real time where the camera focusing with a red square in
the viewfinder. Due to E-1 limitations, you never can check accurate
focusing in the screen and when you upload the image in the computer,
you find out the camera focused in the wrong place. This only happens
when the subject is moving really fast. I suppose E-3 has solved this. I
can´t remember how many times you can´t enlarge the image in E-3 but you
can see if the image is perfectly focused. I also must say 14-54 optical
performance is not enough for me. As soon as Olympus has released their
prime lenses I´ll get rid of this lens. I need the quality of Zuiko
Digital 50/2. This lens is awesome.
You can send me an E-1 orf file and I´ll send it back to you processed
with my color profile and preferences. I am really interested to see if
you like it. ;) Something you won´t see is noise reduction or such
things like this. I like the pure image coming from the sensor, E-1
noise is film-like and this is something I really like.
I have created the icc profile for using it for daylight. I don´t like
white balancing the image. I love to see a blue cast if the day is
cloudy. So white point is fixed like film. If you white balance the
image, the message is lost. This cold and cool atmosphere is lost.
I used to spend too much time, sometimes several days processing tons of
pictures. Now all these properties are assigned to my images as they are
uploaded in my MAC. In one hour I can proccess 600 images with truly
stunning results. I don´t like Capture ONE, even the latest release
loses too much detail from my images.
5 Mp images need better sharpening algorithms because bayer pattern
loses too much detail when demosaicing algorithms are being applied. As
soon as the the same image becomes bigger like your 21 Mp image, you
have extra detail for the same subjet, so less sharpening is required.
I have seen these images. I prefer your E-3 image, honestly. Image
structure is far better than the other one. I am going to send you a
processed E-3 image with Raw Developer and you´ll see the results ;) I
am also going to send E-1 images taken with my Zuiko 50/2. You will see
the difference.
Warmest regards,
David Irisarri
C.H.Ling escribió:
> Dave, I agree with you about the details of the E-1 is good enough for most
> application provided the focus is right and it did with the 50/2. The
> problem was I always see AF issues with 11-22 and 14-54, the result was not
> consistant and I can't use MF with the viewfinder. I love the 11-22, without
> it I'm not interested on the 4/3.
>
> I have not try Raw Developer, I mainly use Olympus RAW converter, I will use
> SilkyPix or Captuer One for the over exposed images as Olympus RAW cannot
> recover overexposed details. Based on the portraits I have seen, the tone of
> your images are very nice especially the B/W one. But I'm very happy with
> Olympus RAW, I don't see any need for another converter at this moment.
>
> Life is short, I have too many things in queue. You never know if a RAW
> converter is good for all images, I was quite happy with Capture One 4.6 for
> my 5D Mark II, but I just found the shadow has serious color shift for low
> color temp. light source while the Canon DPP is always accurate. Same for
> the Olympus RAW, I found the result was much more consistant than the third
> party one.
>
> For my digital images I'm not interested to have them emulate any color
> film, film was never as good as digital IMO. I like Olympus digital color, I
> wish I can make my Canon images look close to it.
>
> A good digital image need very little or no sharpening, see the below 21MP
> image taken with the low cost Zuiko 28-48 zoom at 28mm F8, converted with
> DPP, no sharpening and no noise reduction, ISO640 equ.:
>
> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/IMG_1641.JPG
>
> I doubt my E-3 image will come close even with the 14-35/2:
>
> E-3, 14-45 at 14mm, F5.6 shoot at a different day, Olympus RAW,
> sharpening -2, no noise reduction.
>
> http://www.accura.com.hk/temp/P3063360.jpg
>
> I never believe sharpening can recover any unavailable details, I believe in
> sharp focus, CCD and good lenses. For NR I use Neatimage.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Irisarri"
>
> Hi C.H.Ling,
>
> I agree with you about E-1 ergonomics. Simply love it ;) I also agree
> with you about resolving power of E-1. Despite being a 5Mp camera, the
> resolving power using a razor sharp lens like ZD 50/2 is really
> impressive. Did you try Raw Developer? I know you like SilkyPix but this
> software blows away any RAW software? It also allow you to use ICC
> profiles. I created a custom icc profile with more than 600 color
> patches and then fine tunned it, modifying 3d cluts for perfect skin
> reproduction desaturing this range of hues and the rest of colours with
> an increased colour saturation to emulate Ektachrome E-100G. I am really
> satisfied. ;) Sharpening with this software is also awesome. It allows
> using Richardson-Lucy deconvolution algotrithms!!! They were previously
> used for focusing blurred Hubble images before replacing the faulty
> glass element. You can also use Early stage noise reduction feature. It
> ´s like modifying E-1 AA filter effectiveness. As you know, it´s very
> common to see labyrinth maze patterns in cameras with weak AA filters
> when sharpening in Raw Processing Workflow. After wasting some weeks
> fine tuning the software options, now I can say without any doubt that
> Olympus Studio weren´t taking E-1 to the limit. I also processed E-3
> images with this software using a Zuiko Digital 14-35 and I am still
> shocked ;) Resolving power is higher than medium format cameras. Crystal
> clear images with unsurpassed clarity.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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