[LRflex] Re: Odditites
- From: David Young <dsy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:03:57 -0700
> Good afternoon all!
>
> I read the article about the Oly, E-M5 on The Luminous Landscape and was
> quite impressed with their findings.
> By pure chance, I run into one at the local London Drugs. I tried it out
> on the spot with the 12-50mm kit lens and decided to buy it. I had the
> manual printed, because the small one in the box was useless. I bought
> it for the same reason you have stated, but when I looked at the results
> I got, I was very disappointed and returned it for a full refund.
Hi Erich!
I am at a loss to explain your odd colour renditions, with the OM-D (EM-5).
I admit, my time with it was short, but I shot RAW and found the colours just
about bang on, right 'out of the box'. Were you shooting jpegs? (Although
most reports say the jpegs are also very good, "out of the box".) Perhaps you
got a dud?
What impressed me was that Carrie's husband (she loaned me her camera) has a
top-of-the-line Canon, and the little OM-D "blew it out of the water" (his
words) for lack of noise. Very useable at ISO 3200 ... with about the same
noise he gets at ISO 800 on his EOS-1Ds.
For interest, I have posted two test images... these are not great photos...
they were taken to test the camera. But the first is my neighbour's Quad
(ATV), parked about 90 meters (100 yards) away - using the Telyt, hand held at
ISO 3200.
http://www.furnfeather.net/Temps/OMD-TEST1.html
The other is a flower on Rose's cactus - this time with the Micro-Nikkor, again
hand held at ISO 3200.
http://www.furnfeather.net/Temps/OMD-TEST2.html
Both were wide open, not sure about shutter speeds.
They are not perfect, but I think the noise, for ISO 3200 is remarkably well
controlled. I have made no efforts at all, to reduce the noise, as I wanted to
see what the noise level was. I could, of course, run them through Noise Ninja
or Neat Image, to improve things, but that was not the point. No noise
reduction was used, in LR, either.
These are reduced in size, for the internet (1280 px wide) but are otherwise
full frame, and saved at 99% - so dial up users be warned, these jpegs are over
1mb each!
Comments and opinions on the technical side appreciated.
> Hope that my findings are useful,
Indeed, Erich,they are. And compared to my experience, most surprising!
If I buy one, I'll report on how it compares to the one I've tried.
David.
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