I have different experience, after I had learnt how to use ground grass I
have changed all focusing screen on my OM camera bodies to the all matte
type, my favorite focusing screen is Minolta Acute Matte. The reason I want
digital is the convenience, I can shoot one or two images and immediate
"process" them, with film it take weeks until I finish one roll. Digital is
also much better in handling different lighting condition (W/B), it is much
easier for color correction, the image is also much cleaner (less grainly)
than a scanned film.
I have never look through the Pen EVF but the 5D II LCD allow manual
focusing without magnification with a longer lens like 40mm or above, I
expect the Pen EVF will be similar if not better. For the wider lenses I can
pre-focus or slow down a little to zoom in the image, for my type of works
it is ok.
MFT will be my 2nd system, for putting inside my small shoulder bag which I
carry everyday to document our daily life. A DZ12mm plus the Pen FT 20/3.5,
25/2.8, 40/1.4, 100/3.5 and 150/4 it will be a very nice and complete
system. I like working slow (ok except the flower show portrait :-)) as it
gives me more time to think before shooting. Talking about lens quality....
ok.... wait until I got a Pen Digital first. I'm rather happy with the OM
lenses on my 5D II even they are not as good as the top lenses from Canyon.
Ah! even the purple fringe king 180/2.8 looks excellent to my eyes :-)
C.H.Ling
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Irisarri Vila"
Dear C.H.Ling,
Yeah I am aware of this article :) Dpreview also highlights this issue.
Please don´t take this as a criticism (you know I really like your
photography work) but if I wanted a manual focus camera, I´d buy again the
OM4T with the 50 f1.2 lens and 100f2. The metering system was awesome,
superb viewfinder, superb lenses, etc...I would only use MF if I had OM4T
split/microprism focus screen, I really liked that system. Enlarging the
picture, focus and then zoom out, come on!!!. We are losing the target!!!
This isn´t photography at all. Non optimized lenses for MFT produce ghost
effect wide open. All of them!!! I need a new Zuiko Digital 50 f2 optimized
for MFT. AF doesn´t work in PEN cameras (I mean fast focusing). I don´t want
adapters. I like MTF for its compactness. So no adapters please!!! I want a
20 or 25mm f/1.4 lens, I know Olympus can make it much better than Panasonic
20/1.7. Panasonic removes purple fringing in their JPEGs but unprocessed RAW
images have lot of purple fringing in this lens. Resolution is hair rising
but vignetting is also very high!!! :(
http://www.photozone.de/olympus--four-thirds-lens-tests/464-pana_20_17?start=1
f 1.7 1,48 EV
f 2 1,17 EV
f2.8 0,76 EV
f4 0,52 EV
f5.6 0,47 EV
f8 0,46 EV
I am also looking forward to seeing Panasonic 14mm f2.8. So three prime
lenses. Wide, standard and zoom!!! That´s all!!! I am fed up of zooms!
What´s the point of supersonic wave filter if you put a zoom 14-140 lens in
your camera and you never take it out.
Regards,
Dave
El 22/03/2010, a las 09:56, C.H.Ling escribió:
> For the image blur problem it is detail documented here:
>
> http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/EP1/EP1A.HTM
>
> It is mainly due to shutter vibration, loose constructed 14-42 and IS.
> Firmware 1.1 improves the problem but it is better to shoot with IS off.
>
> I found the same blur problem with a Tamron 70-300 and 5D II (without IS
> of
> course) at slow shutter speed so I sold it early last year. Olympus Pen is
> fine with me as I will only use Olympus Pen FT lenses (except the DZ
> 12mm),
> they are so solid that there will be no blur problem due to loose lens.
>
> Slow AF? I don't use AF, I will use the high quality EVF and do MF, lens
> mechanical noise will not exist either. I'm used to the 5D II video mode
> with 100% MF (its video AF mode is also very slow and not usable).
>
> So far the Pen videos I have seen are having too much noise
> reduction/compression and the details are a little chunk, don't know if
> they
> have been converted (poorly). I think I need to make some myself to
> conclude.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Irisarri Vila" <div2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 3:31 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] Converting RW2 to ORF
>
>
> Hi C.H.Ling,
>
> The main reason I want to load Panasonic RAW images in Olympus Studio 2 is
> for Olympus unique rendering color/tone as you have mention. Clearly
> Olympus
> has a great knowledge in this field and they are outputting the best JPG
> from the camera in the market.
> This is something very attractive as honestly I am really fed up with post
> processing, raw workflow, color management, etc... I want to take pictures
> again. Olympus is going in the right way, avoiding any post processing in
> the computer. We want perfect pictures coming from the camera.
>
> Having tried almost all RAW Workflow packages, honestly I hate ACR,
> Lightroom and Silkypix because when sharpening they give a plastic
> synthetic
> image. Chroma noise is something it can be removed but luminance noise
> it´s
> something you should never remove from the image.You can love it or hate
> it
> but you must live with it. Olympus software package is also horrible (I
> really like CaptureONE V layout, menus and this easy way of working) but
> Olympus image processing pipeline is the best I have seen until now.
> Images
> look real, like film!
>
> I am really angry because I am fed up of waiting, waiting and waiting for
> a
> camera that never appears. PEN really grabbed my attention but why using
> an
> unpolished raw technology. Although Olympus reports there is nothing wrong
> with IS, there is something malfunctioning with the camera and the images
> become blurred between 1/160-60s. The exposure meter overexposes too much,
> ultra slow autofocusing (a pain in the neck), video also it´s horrible
> with
> tons of artifacts, the lens makes lot of noise, etc...
>
> Anyway, I am an Olympus lover but today I must recognize Panasonic is
> leading the microfourthirds system. GF1 is a clear winner. They add
> chromatic aberration/distortion removal in the camera and they forgot
> corner
> shading compensation :( but there isn´t anything perfect!
>
> Regards,
>
> Dave
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