Olympus E-3 images don't seem particularly sharp

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

RichA - 25 Oct 2007 15:34 GMT

100 ISO, comparing them to samples in dpreview from the Nikon D200,
the E-3 images do not look very sharp. I can't tell from these what
the DR is like though.

http://www.olympus-esystem.com/dea/products/e3/sample/

Reply to this Message

Clemens Dorda - 25 Oct 2007 15:47 GMT

RichA schrieb:

> 100 ISO, comparing them to samples in dpreview from the Nikon D200,
> the E-3 images do not look very sharp.

Don't know what you see, but for my eyes
http://www.olympus-esystem.com/dea/products/e3/sample/image/e3sp_001.jpg
and
http://www.olympus-esystem.com/dea/products/e3/sample/image/e3sp_002.jpg

is neither softer nor sharper than (e.g.)
http://dpreview-img.fotki.com/gallery/nikond200_samples/originals/dsc_0207-raw-c
apt.jpg
or
http://dpreview-img.fotki.com/gallery/nikond200_samples/originals/dsc_0219.jpg

I think sharpness will not be the problem of the E-3, noise and dynamik
range (esp. JPEG) is likely the more critical path.

Clemens

Reply to this Message

news-server.buffalo.rr.com - 26 Oct 2007 03:17 GMT

> RichA schrieb:
>> 100 ISO, comparing them to samples in dpreview from the Nikon D200,
[quoted text clipped - 14 lines]
>
> Clemens

Yeah lets figure out how to diss this camera and why ours is so much better,
before it come out. I love this group.

Reply to this Message

Clemens Dorda - 26 Oct 2007 12:38 GMT

news-server.buffalo.rr.com schrieb:

> Yeah lets figure out how to diss this camera and why ours is so much better,
> before it come out. I love this group.

Be sure, man, I'm not the one who want's to diss either the E-3 or any
other camera, which is not in stores right now. But in fact DR is an
issue (not much, but it's definitely there) for the E-410 and E-510
(esp. for JPEG images), and therefore I think the DR of the E-3 should
be examined with higher attention, as well as any other new DSLR from
any manufacturer. Maybe there's nothing special with it, maybe it is. I
don't know. The Canon 40D showed
(http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos40d/page20.asp) that DR must
not be an issue even for a 10 MP DSLR regarding both JPEG and RAW images
from the camera.

Clemens

Reply to this Message

RichA - 26 Oct 2007 15:25 GMT

> news-server.buffalo.rr.com schrieb:
>
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> be examined with higher attention, as well as any other new DSLR from
> any manufacturer.

The reason I moved from a P&S to a DSLR (one of them) was that it was
annoying blowing out the whites, or ending up with heavy, noisy shadow
areas because of lack of DR. Why would anyone put up with it in a
DSLR if they could avoid it?

Reply to this Message

rarewolf - 25 Oct 2007 19:55 GMT

> 100 ISO, comparing them to samples in dpreview from the Nikon D200,
> the E-3 images do not look very sharp. I can't tell from these what
> the DR is like though.
>
> http://www.olympus-esystem.com/dea/products/e3/sample/

You're looking at in-camera 8bit sRGB JPEGs aimed at the internet ...
what would you expect?

No one is really going to know the image quality and DR for this
camera until you can put ORF examples thru your RAW developer. I'm
looking to seriously evaluate this camera after Jan 1.

cheerios :o)

Reply to this Message

RichA - 25 Oct 2007 20:33 GMT

> > 100 ISO, comparing them to samples in dpreview from the Nikon D200,
> > the E-3 images do not look very sharp. I can't tell from these what
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
> You're looking at in-camera 8bit sRGB JPEGs aimed at the internet ...
> what would you expect?

Better than what I saw.

Reply to this Message