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Subject: [OM] Q v. Q [was IMG: Fungi]
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 22:21:29 -0700
On 7/1/2018 7:58 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:
It's not the QUANTITY of the MPs, it's the QUALITY!

I'm still not entirely convinced. And I'm not interested in comparing to Canon and Fuji cameras, as I have no interest, at this juncture, in owning either. My questions are more along the lines of "What do I gain or lose by moving from the Kodak CCD sensor in the E-1 to the CMOS sensors in the current Oly cameras?"

Herewith a comparison of E-1, E-300 and E-M5 II, converted in ACR/LR and in the Oly software.* <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Sensor%20Color/_B050014comp.htm>
No processing after conversion, all default settings for conversion.

With the E-1, there's a distinct difference between ACR/LR and Oly Master 2. It's hard to say from this distance in time which is more accurate, although I tend to prefer Master 2.

E-M5 II with ACR/LR is quite close to E-1, M2, and the differences with V3 seem to be of curve, more than color. The E-M5 II ACR/LR version looks to me the best for further processing.

I bought the E-300 mostly because it was the last Kodak sensor, and has a few more Mpickles than the E-1, so I was curious. It was also very cheap, bundled with the 14-54.

I'm not sure what happened here, with one blossom changing from purple tones to 
pink ones. More testing, I suppose.

I chose this subject for likely difficult to reproduce natural colors. Based on this one test, I can't see any color rendition advantage of E-1 over E-M5 II. It seems to me that Oly has done a good job of retaining their 'look'.

Testy Moose

* These JPEGs have an aRGB ICC profile. That should work fine with the mainstream browsers and recent displays. They look the same to me in PS and in the browser.

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