On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Ian W <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Last night I was looking through my pictures with my wife (using
> irfanview) and we came to the conclusion that they were better colour,
> sharpness and in some other unexplained way than ones taken with the
> E-3, not much but enough to notice has anyone else found this.
>
> maybe its to do with aperture and its raw development or maybe it's some
> in camera setting I have wrongly set.
>
> has anyone else found this?
I think it's probably going to be largely a matter of finding the
settings that you like best with the E-3. Since I was shooting with
both bodies last weekend, I was struck by how pleasing the E-1 capture
is. But I also was -- mostly -- using entirely different lenses
between the two cameras, and at the time the E-1 was the winning
camera/lens combination.
But there is NOTHING wrong with the E-1, and yet I'm not ready by that
fact to declare the E-3 a stinker. It seems extremely accurate; it's
just that accuracy is not always precisely what one is looking for.
For now the E-1 has that 'je ne sais quoi" quality -- for me -- and
I'm pretty confident that I know almost exactly what I will get with
it, whereas I'm not at that level of familiarity yet with the E-3 and
get both pleasant surprise as well as disappointments from it.
This is not to say that I can't ordinarily pull the result I'm after
from the E-3 RAW file. I just like the camera settings to get me 90%
of the way there.
My hypothesis is that what I'm looking for lies in the E-3 VIVID menu,
with some scaling back of the saturation settings and a bit of a tweak
away from green in WB.
Joel W.
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