I just hope you guys are not too far away with the "HIP"
Oly E-1 is better focusing in "LOW" LIGHT?
I've used the following cameras, D70, D70S, E-1, E-300, D2H, D200, 20D, 5D, 1Ds, 1D / 1Ds MKII
Trust me, "NO", I mean "NO" camera out there perform better in low light accuracy against the 1D series from Canon.
I've couple of friends who sold their full Oly setup 10K plus to go with the oher brand due to the need to shoot with available light. They went over to 4/3 and bounce back when E-1 was lauched and then 1Ds was an ARM and LEG in price.
Coming to better color contrast & dynamic range? I think the FF is still better in getting better natural coloration out. - I don't have time for processing unless doing critical commerical projects.
As for NR in Oly? I work in the company that invent CMOS sensor for the past 11years.
NR or no NR, I think it's a matter of mild standard NR or enhanced NR - Playing with marketing terms. All system will have the standard NR being part of system, but with additional enhanced NR option to increase it. NO such thing as total NO NR.
I think it's personally needs.
Once again I suggest u pick up a D2X or 1D MkIIn if u a sport shooter or a 1Ds MkII if you play with available light type - and U TELL ME IF YOUR OLY OUTPERFORM THEM? I'm not too sure if you talking about best agianst the best - Maybe not a fair example?
But if the L1 + leica 4/3 lens going to cost USD 2899? I'll buy a 5D anytime with that money
I think Oly E-330 will have a price advantage against 20D or 30D, but the Lens is petty expensive thru. The E-330 will take away business from Canon and Nikon at their D70S, D50, 20D and 30D range. But we talking about Leica 4/3 system lens here and it mean $? Doesn;t make sense? Porsche 5L twin Turbo engine in a nissan march chasis? :bsmilie:
Let's wait till the actual product and we can testify the performance...one thing about Panasonic.........too much marketing hype...
wind30 said:
how about this? 100% crop.
ISO800, just ran it through neatimage. Look at the details in the clock logo. This is 100% crop and to me it is definately useable. You just need a NR software.
The point about oly DSLR like E1 is that it doesn't do any noise reduction while Canon does it in camera. Lets put it this way. I had an E1 together at the same time with the s3pro and I ran iso800 test shots for both. They were pretty close. s3pro is supposedly really low noise. (people say it is better than D200 for noise)
Lets put is this way, s3pro has very low noise out of camera jpeg. Somehow their in camera noise reduction is BETTER than neatimage which is quite amazing. I get more details with out of camera ISO800 jpegs than what I could do if I use ACR to develop, neatimage to clean up. Olympus E1 don't really do much noise reduction for their jpeg so people think it is very noisy which is not.
HAVING said all these, olympus is a noiser than canon I think, but by only 1-2 stops, ie their ISO800 is comparable to canon ISO1600-3200.
There are other more impt points than ISO. big example is focusing accuracy. When shooting low light, I find that focusing accuracy is so much more impt than ISO performance. Example when I was shooting the clock test shots on a tripod, my s3pro misfocused once but the E1 was right on. The photozone.de owner who has tested many canon and olympus lens said that olympus body has more accurate autofocus than the 350D. And that focusing affects his lens sharpness test by a lot.