E-P1 Tone curve richer shadows are back.
Friday, June 26, 2009 at 11:20AM Hello everyone,
just dashing for the door, but I've been preparing some images for my E-P1 sample Gallery from yesterday - and I notice that the E-P1 is much richer (darker) in the shadows than the E-620/E-30...
It won't make much difference to those of us who shoot raw, but for the jpeg shooters who prefer more punchy out of camera results - I suspect this will be good news.
Will post an update this afternoon, when I've uploaded the images.
Oh, go on then (hope I'm not late for lunch!)
Click on the image to open a larger view.
E-P1 + 17mm f2.8 pancake (fantastic FOV for street shooting imho)
1/320s f/5.0 at 17.0mm iso200
There's a story behind this one... I was walking with Tammy and Jeff... who both had DSLRs with them - they spotted the police officers and dropped their cameras. I just stopped - framed the shot with the LCD, fired and continued. I'm sure that I just looked like a zero threat tourist - it felt great!
Wrt the tone curve - this is straight out of Olympus Studio - no relighting with Lightzone could have improved it.
Kind Regards
Brian
Reader Comments (7)
Looks like they've hit on a really nice contrast curve, judging by the various samples I've seen. Since you are shooting raw, have you noticed a slowdown in shot-to-shot performance using raw? I'm asking because of yesterday's cnet review that knocked the EP-1 for that. i was thinking it might go up or down depending on one's SD card.
John, you're right - now that I'm looking for it, the tone curve is definitely richer in the shadows... it's looking great.
I'll upload some raw files in due course. If you see anything in the running gallery you want me to upload - please just let me know?
Cheers
Brian
Impressive. The E-P1 really does have a very wide tonal latitude. I noticed it also in John Foster's images on his biofos.co.uk website. But why the paranoia? It's not (yet) illegal to shoot policemen in Britain - photographically speaking.
GBY
John Begin.
Hi John,
why the paranoia? I don't know - ask Gordon Brown ;)
By the way, Tammy had already been stopped and questioned by police earlier in the day - shooting with her E-3.
Cheers
Brian
OK - did the police tell Tammy why they stopped her? Did they threaten her in any way or say that she was photographing sensitive buildings, etc?
If the police think that terrorists use dslrs and tourists use p&s cameras they are more naive than we give them credit. It must have been a low incident day for the one who approached Tammy - and perhaps he just wanted something to do...
John.
Just wanted something to do... hmmm - is that any excuse to harrass the public? I'm sorry, I can't find any reasonable excuse for this targeting of enthusiast photographers John - you're not trying to find one are you?
Cheers
Brian
Oh - I'm trying to defend them -- they are very good at that -- but in paranoia land we can't be too careful in what we say online -- big brother is watching us.
Seriously though, we ought to be bold with intrusive behaviour from the police. They do have a hard job, made harder still by the ever increasing new laws and new crimes, and additional paperwork, but they must have a very clear purpose in stopping citizens and requiring them to answer questions. When stopped by police we should simply ask the questions: Why are you stopping me? What do you think I am doing wrong? May I borrow your pen so I can write down your number? (Sure I'm a lot bolder in type than on the street.)
Hope you have a great afternoon with the E-P1 in Sheffield.
John.