Thank you. I see some rather very strange posterization-compression.. I am going to chalk that up to a jpeg re-compression and now what comes out of the EM5.Here it is 100% crop of the face and dark background.
- Ricardo
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Thank you. I see some rather very strange posterization-compression.. I am going to chalk that up to a jpeg re-compression and now what comes out of the EM5.Here it is 100% crop of the face and dark background.
Thank you.Jpeg settings set to Large 3:2 resized to 72 dpi cropped 100%.
The DPI value is a theoretic construction not having anything to do with the image quality. It is mainly used to tell a DTP application about the final size of the image, and maybe what raster should be used (like Photoshop telling Indesign "here you have an image, it is 720x350 pixels and you should make it print at 72DPI", Indesign then sends an image which will be properly printed and end up 10x5 inch (at a rather low quality).As far as I understand, 300 dot (pixels) per inch is packed tightly per square inch as against a 72 dots per inch. The image size was likewise changed as the dpi was changed in Photoshop, Scale Style, Resample Image and Constrain Proportions are checked in the image size window. What do you mean "just changing a number in a table" ? Does it mean nothing happens when you change a number in photoshop?
Stay Stay! It's my thread and we need everyone!Thank you for the info. Actually, I was not touching technical issues as I've just posted in "Having Fun with the OMD" I just replied to the request of Ricardo to crop 100%. If this thread is technical in nature then I'm out of here. I don't have that much knowledge to share, btw, I still can't find the settings for super fine, fine, normal, etc. from this camera so I can't tell yet. I came from film, had a short stint with DSLR then back to film, then combo of film and DRF and now added M43.
gilpen, it's not a technical thread by nature and there is no reason for anyone to leave. The "Fun with..." -threads here are what they are called and an opportunity to share whatever we all have made, just a bit sorted.Thank you for the info. Actually, I was not touching technical issues as I've just posted in "Having Fun with the OMD" I just replied to the request of Ricardo to crop 100%. If this thread is technical in nature then I'm out of here.
This is a raw file - processed in LR4 with no noise reduction or anything else
taken with the 45. f1.8 at f1.8
FWIW it was taken with touch shutter in terrible lighting in a pub after a couple of pints - in other words it's a real world bad situation (with focus light turned off)
I'm not sure about your feelings, but I think this is excellent
100% crop below (also at 72dpi )
Indeed.(...)Things Have Changed.
Having owned a K5 and a D7000 myself, I only can assure you that the OMD plays in the same field!Wow, Jono. A New Era Has Dawned. That looks like Kodachrome 25 grain, and at ISO 3200, yet. You are not doing my sales resistance any good at all.
My main camera is still an M8. My long lens camera is an E-30. My "good enough" generalist camera is the original G1. Up until now, the only reason to upgrade from the G1 was maybe the GH2. But the OMD looks like it is playing in the same field as the K-5 and D7000. Things Have Changed.
--Peter
The OMD does very well, but no, I wouldn't put it still on the same field/category of those last two. The high ISO of that Sony sensor is still better as its still its DR and tonality (14-bits raw vs 12-bit raw - and yes, the K-5/D7000 do use the bits). But I agree the OMD does very well.My main camera is still an M8. My long lens camera is an E-30. My "good enough" generalist camera is the original G1. Up until now, the only reason to upgrade from the G1 was maybe the GH2. But the OMD looks like it is playing in the same field as the K-5 and D7000. Things Have Changed.
I think it does look pretty good. Thank you for posting that, that's the kind of shot/situation I want to see the OMD going through. It's no K-5 but it's pretty good, and it doesn't have to be as good as a K-5 to be of interest to me.Stay Stay! It's my thread and we need everyone!
Settings for fine / superfine etc. are 3rd option down in the shooting menu 1 i.e the one with a triangle pointing to the left with bits coming out to the right. Choose LF.
Ricardo
This is a raw file - processed in LR4 with no noise reduction or anything else
taken with the 45. f1.8 at f1.8
FWIW it was taken with touch shutter in terrible lighting in a pub after a couple of pints - in other words it's a real world bad situation (with focus light turned off)
I'm not sure about your feelings, but I think this is excellent
Depends on which camera you are talking aboutFor ISO 3200 and those conditions it would be hard to do better with any camera. I am particularly taking the pint into consideration.
Jim