Barre, Vermont
On the table at a little pizza place. The food was excellent. The flowers and ketchup container were both a bit weird looking. When I happened to take a look at this file at 100% I was surprised at the strange texture of the flower fabric, which I hadn't noticed at all with the naked eye.
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3 comments:
Truly remarkable detail at ISO 800 - and what a lens at f1.7! Up to now I did not really understand the fascination of M4/3, but now seeing these results coming from such a small unit, it seems that I have to re-think my position. And now I also understand your statement about the print sizes possible with this "smallish" gear. Maybe I need a new camera? ;)
Markus, it's a different "vibe" from dSLR. I'm looking for the digital capture equivalent of the way I worked with my Leica M4 starting in 1967, but now in color. No, the M8 and M9 don't do it, even if I could afford them. The G3 doesn't do it comprehensively, but at about 1/10th the price of an M9?
ISO 800 is fully usable for 20" wide prints with the GF1, from Raw files. The question is whether the G3 will jump up from there, but I can't tell from in-camera JPEGs (as near as I can tell from the wretched instruction manual, there is no way to turn off or modify in-camera high ISO noise reduction on the JPEG files). Presumably that will go away when I can open the Raw files in ACR.
A further surprise: I put the "kit zoom" that came with the camera on the GF1 for our little overnight expedition, and used it a bit. I'm astonished at the quality of the files, and now we're talking about working directly on the GF1 Raw file in ACR. The lens is physically rough—I have trouble gripping the soft and flexible zoom ring gently enough to keep it from binding—but the optical results leave me shaking my head. It's slow, but has shake reduction that seems very effective. Makes me wonder what their high-end zooms can do.
There's a lot of misunderstanding of 4/3s and m4/3s. The difference in sensor size to APS-C is not as great as a lot of people seem to think. In fact, it's easily in the range where a system with top-notch implementation in this sensor size can clobber the results of a less-well-implemented APS-C system.---Carl
Yes, artificial flowers are really awesome and need no maintenance and water. to take a look everyday.. :D
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