Ian, certainly a very interesting topic.
I do the same as you. I spend hours in front of my Apple Cinema, going
through the images, checking dynamic range, highlights, noise, etc...
I have been working with E-1 since 2003. Color was superb in that time
but I missed too much reversal film color rendition. I also didn´t like
at all Olympus Studio for processing my images and jumping to another
software, Olympus color was lost. CaptureONE with their lovely etcetera
consulting ICC profiles, is a good candidate but their demosaicing
algorithms were very bad. Even with their new 4.0 release, fine details
in images are lost.
I have been reading a lot about E-3 but also have seen hundreds of
images, checking noise, color, detail, etc... and I must say E-3 is
better than E-1 in all fields. I agree with Richard about dynamic range.
E-1 KAF-5101CE CCD was superb. Underexposed images processed under RAW
software, pushing up (1 to 1.5 stops) are rendered with rich detail and
little noise. We cannot say the same about E-3. Have a look to this
Olympus demo image. It´s ISO 100 and have a look into the deep shadows
between her neck and hair. Banding, green cast, etc... It seems this
sensor has banding issues even at lower ISOs but I the overall quality
is fantastic.
http://olympus-imaging.jp/product/dslr/e3/sample/images/index_image02_l.jpg
Something I don´t agree with you is about E-3 color. I think E-3 color
is simply awesome. Muchhhhh better than E-1. Olympus did a great job.
This camera blows away CANON and NIKON in color rendition. Clearly,
color is one of Olympus priorities when creating a camera.
Regards,
Dave
Frank van Lindert escribió:
> Hi Ian.
>
> I don't own the E-1 or E-3 camera, but I have the smaller E-400. I
> have noticed, and got it confirmed by comparison with some friends'
> pictures, that my older E-400 also gives slightly better results than
> its successor E-420. Since I can do without the LiveView I did not
> 'upgrade'...
>
> Frank van Lindert
> Utrecht NL.
>
>
> On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 07:32:23 +0100, Ian W wrote:
>
>
>> Last night I was looking through my pictures with my wife (using
>> irfanview) and we came to the conclusion that they were better colour,
>> sharpness and in some other unexplained way than ones taken with the
>> E-3, not much but enough to notice has anyone else found this.
>>
>> maybe its to do with aperture and its raw development or maybe it's some
>> in camera setting I have wrongly set.
>>
>> has anyone else found this?
>>
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