The last couple of days I've been taking photos of the interior of my
house to make some sale photos for when it goes on the market on
Saturday. <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/2712/index.htm>
I haven't done this for about 8 years and I had to re-learn some hard
lessons on dealing with mixed incandescent, daylight and fluorescent. I
probably should have used flash and filters but I didn't have enough
time for such sophistication.
So, using only ambient light, I ended up with a lot of photos having
deep shadow areas in an attempt to keep the highlights under some sort
of control. Some photos required rather extreme manipulation of
exposure, shadow and highlight controls in PhotoShop. It was not common
but several shots show what I think is a light spot caused by reflection
from the sensor. See the left side of the back of my easy-chair in this
shot <http://www.chucknorcutt.com/2712/familyroom1.htm> I think it's a
reflection from the fluorescent fixture in the background. This is not
very visible in the the actual tiny images used on-line for advertising
the house (same size as the thumbnails) but I still found it unexpected
and disturbing.
I was using the mZuiko 12-50 at 12mm throughout. I suppose it could be
this particular lens but I haven't had a chance to test any other.
Anyhow I've never seen it before but have never pushed shadows this
hard. Anyone else seen this sort of effect from the E-M5?
Chuck Norcutt
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