One of the reviews I saw of the E410 said that Oly sharpens the output
to compensate for the noise reduction softness. He recommended
shooting with the sharpness at the minimum (-2) for ISO <400. I
believe he said for ISO 800 he had the lowest setting for noise
reduction above off and the sharpness set at -1. He also mentioned the
noise reduction doesn't change with ISO causing the default settings
for low ISO to have too much noise reduction and too much sharpening.
The default Olympus Master software settings use the camera settings
giving a result essentially the same as a jpg from the camera. He felt
Photoshop gave better results after just a little experimenting.
I haven't tried printing anything but pixel peeping some recent shots
made me believe it is a definite improvement over the E1. ... I was
shooting ISO 100.
-jeff
On 6/22/07, Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> With noise reduction off, I can see a good bit of noise even at ISO
> 400, which had appeared to be virtually noiseless in the stuff I was
> seeing on the web. But then as I said above, what you see on the web
> and what you see coming out of your printer are two different things.
> I've turned noise reduction off, and left camera sharpening at 0
> (Where my E-1 lives), and I plan to shoot more frames this afternoon.
>
> Which brings me to images. To my eye, the E-510 produces quite soft
> images, at least in RAW mode, where I live, and with the several I
> worked on earlier today, I couldn't get the same level of sharpness
> in an E-510 image I can get out of an E-1 images. In fact, the Raw
> files from the E-1 convert noticeably sharper than the E-510 images
> through Adobe Camera RAW 4.1, even though both the E-1 and E-510
> shared similar in-camera settings, and even shared the same tripod,
> lenses, f-stops and such. (I try not to be a pixel-peeper, but
> sometimes I can't help myself.) It also should be noted my images are
> with the 14-54 and 50-200. I'll shoot a few this afternoon with the
> kit lenses just to see the difference.
>
>
> --Bob
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