Austrian dipper - one from last week on a short wander along the river running through the Gastein valley. The river was heavily engineered to allow melt water to flow quickly and had few access points to get down to water level so despite there being lots of dippers displaying on the river, few were in photographic range
Olympus E-3, 50-200mm plus 1.4 tc, iso 400, 1/800s at F9, Av exposure -2/3, light travel tripod, IS off, jpeg. Quite a large crop to 3x2 format to remove storm clutter in river.
Aghh too many Pauls - Paul G - the camera is starting to grow on me, it is not as immediately intuative as the E-1 but is much more customisable. The standard AF mode may be OK for large static objects but for wildlife photography it isn't precise enough, so I now have the body permanatly set to AF points 'fine' mode.
The main problem remains with the small sensor that if you try to crop an image too much it does start to show ingressive grain - so the solution is simple - shoot the image right to begin with
I have started printing some of the Grasmere shots and they are just fine at A3 size
This is really too big a crop from the original image >50% so is appearing to smear, the breast whites are diffuse and lack detail from the high contrast lighting conditions but are not blown. You can underexpose a touch more than the Canon bodies without blocking out the blacks and hence retain the whites - whilst the magzines highlight the reduced upper dynamic range, in practice you can adjust teh exposure down to compensate without losing detail.
Olympus always do make lovely bodies, the E-1 was probably the best i've yet used, the E-3 doesn't fit your hand the same way as the E-1's did but as you say it has many more custom options.
Hmm i find the limited "crop-ability" interesting, i guess this is due to low pps (per pixel sharpness) due to a stronger AA filter?
My reasoning is that the D40 can be viewed at 100% crop and it looks about as good as the image at 50% etc. The D2X is the same. Both are known for being very sharp, unlike previous cameras i've owned like the 20D etc.
I should hope it does print at A3, i've got nice A3 prints from my E-1!
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5 repliesOlympus E-3, 50-200mm plus 1.4 tc, iso 400, 1/800s at F9, Av exposure -2/3, light travel tripod, IS off, jpeg. Quite a large crop to 3x2 format to remove storm clutter in river.
Looks like your perseverance has paid of here and you’re managed to obtain an excellent shot.
Paul
The main problem remains with the small sensor that if you try to crop an image too much it does start to show ingressive grain - so the solution is simple - shoot the image right to begin with
I have started printing some of the Grasmere shots and they are just fine at A3 size
This is really too big a crop from the original image >50% so is appearing to smear, the breast whites are diffuse and lack detail from the high contrast lighting conditions but are not blown. You can underexpose a touch more than the Canon bodies without blocking out the blacks and hence retain the whites - whilst the magzines highlight the reduced upper dynamic range, in practice you can adjust teh exposure down to compensate without losing detail.
Hmm i find the limited "crop-ability" interesting, i guess this is due to low pps (per pixel sharpness) due to a stronger AA filter?
My reasoning is that the D40 can be viewed at 100% crop and it looks about as good as the image at 50% etc. The D2X is the same. Both are known for being very sharp, unlike previous cameras i've owned like the 20D etc.
I should hope it does print at A3, i've got nice A3 prints from my E-1!