The E-1 snapshots I took today are posted here:
http://imageevent.com/puma_cat/olympuse1photos
Bear in mind these are not photgraphs, just snaps. I would have loved
to have had the time to take some photos with the camera.
Some info on the images. All were converted to the Adobe 1998 color
space in Photoshop 7. All were downsampled to 800X600 using Fred
Miranda's Web Presenter Pro, which does an excellent job of
downsampling while maintaining image quality. No color correction,
levels, curves or sharpening or anything else was done to the images
other than the profile conversion and downsampling. They were
downsampled and saved as JPEGs at a 10 level in PS. They are best
viewed in a color managed application like Photoshop, not from the
web browser directly, which is not color managed. Best to download
them and look at them in your color managed application. The EXIF
data should still be attached to the photo, if anyone wants it, let
me know. All were shot at ISO 800, which I just noticed tonight, and
which is unfortunate, as the camera produces notable levels of noise
at this ISO. I would have set the camera to ISO 100 if I had known.
Some notes:
1) The chemicals shelf pic is of note as that was shot handheld by me
in Aperture Priority at 1/15 of a second, so this photo is likely not
as sharp as it could be. I am sure there is some motion blur at this
shutter speed with me handholding the camera. I shot the snapshot in
Aperture as that is what it was set at when I turned on the camera.
Silly me. What's notable is how sharp it looks even at 1/15th of a
second handheld. Pretty dang good.
2) The panning shots of the cars were taken shutter priority at
1/250th second. The focus on the Ford Focus was good, but the camera
missed the VW Jetta focus, even with me panning with the focus cross
hair directly on the car.
3) There is notable noise in some images. Look at the pic of the blue
Ford Focus at 100% to see what I am talking about.
4) If you open any of these in Photoshop, take a look at the
histogram display in the Levels command. Note how the exposures were
dead-on, with a very nice spread of pixels from the deepest blacks to
the highlights. Note also how the middle slider tends to be smack
under the midtones. Oly seems to have nailed the metering on this
camera. Very nice exposure performance.
Hopefully I can rent this puppy sometime, and spend a day working
with the camera to see what it can really do.
-Stephen.
--
2001 CBR600F4i - Fantastic!
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