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Hello,

I am a new E-1 follower. I want to thank all members of this forum. My final decision to go with E-1 is made mostly because of you and I want to thank everybody for the influence that leads me to that decision.

I started with Canon (film SLR camera), but I was turned off by the way how they pushed and promoted their digital Rebel cameras. It was a rude and unrespectable campaign targeted to the mass without any respect to the photographers who look at the camera as an art tool. I don’t care about mega-pixels, but with Canon until the last 5D, the glossy images from their cameras with harsh brakes in shadows were too disappointing from my point of view on what the real camera should judged for.

I perfectly understand the Ricoh GR owner. They own the camera that is real art tool. It’s not perfect in noise and nigh ISO, but the images with all that imperfect noise and low ISO are so perfect… Those pictures are the art. You can feel the man behind each image.

The other favorite is cameras with Foveon sensor, but Sigma 14 is too expensive and it’s not so good as an Olympus E-1. My personal opinion E-1 is forever. It’s so perfect that even getting bad pictures you cannot blame it. It is a precise and marvelous photographic tool.

Thank everybody and have a nice Thanks giving

AM

PS. Attached is just a sample of what I like in my E-1. It is no flash shot, with visible noise. But! I started to understand the Ricoh GR users, which claim that GR noise is so photographic. It makes image real. Again, I am just started and I am still in my learning curve,
http://picasaweb.google.com/amylnikov/Dpreview_samples/photo#5000428698129924114

My other stuff is on the Google Picasa:

http://picasaweb.google.com/amylnikov/
 
The E-1 is still my dream camera. It's all about glass until the E-3 is $500.

Cheers, Seth

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You Know it's like Leica. They made their dream camera. It doesn't not match with current resolution or ISO. but it holds something that made it outstanding like Leica that is still so famous. And if you want hold one of them - do it now until it's not too late :-)

AM
 
A lot of knowledge there. Noise makes pictures come alive - it breathes in a certain dynamic force. Softness and sharpness is something else that is not understood properly. These things I am trying to understand and feel. I think the understanding will come from painters not photographers.

Thanks for entering - hope to catch some more.

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By the way, I got two butlers – Shiraz and Cabernet Sauvignon. I didn’t test Sauvignon yet, but the Shiraz is outstanding.

Be alert it is so good that parental observing is required. :-)

AM
 
You know, it is my first sent message and I still a little bit out of community. But I like the responses that care more about art quality and less about technicality. I am sick and tiered of that. The only question – where is the person behind the camera? I am not a protectionist, but the overwhelming messages here and on the others forums talk more about cameras and less about the way how make image better.

Trying different tools I found that Adobe Light room is very good (and still free for download) tool to manage your shots.

I don’t like motion that digital shots shouldn’t be modified. IMHO, photography is an art of getting and accepting the real life; and post processing is a tool to make that art.

I can be wrong. But I believe in the man of ART!!!
 
I agree that photographs could be modified, but sometimes most viewers of the photos would just be more impressed if hte photo look really artistic even tho it was untouched... so usually if I dont do anything major besides sharpening, curves and stuff i do for raw conversions, I will just say that they are "basically" unedited... just to save the trouble of explaining technical stuff to them.... unless if its this forum, then i would tell them my workflow... lol. But definitely, a cmaera is just a tool to create art.
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Alex

You'll come to really appreciate the E1, despite some shortfalls, as it can deliver results that many would not believe possible. I have two and almost bought a third, for a rainy day.

Now as to the wine, I've been known to enjoy a drop of red or ten out of a tin mug, but at home, a wine glass should be the order of the day, as it is now (though a whisky glass is less likely to tip over at the 'puter desk). Maybe there's some logic to your style.

However, that said, it's sad that your choices are restricted to ones like Rosemount; which is very consistent in style, body and flavour (both white and red), but no where near the quality of even our more modest wine selections.

Cheers

Ray

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Thanks for comments. I just answered almost the same concerns. It could be my weird taste (in every respects, including use of whiskey glass for the wine). I like the reflection of the wine in the glass, not just content :-)
AM
 
Thank you for your comments. Yes, I totally agree. I just want to move from technical discussions (where almost all of us are amateurs) to the enjoyment of making and appreciating photography as the life style. Again it is my personal opinion and I can be wrong ;-)
AM
 
Sorry if I sounded like a blaming man. I don’t want to dictate how discussions should go and you right - there are a lot of talks about art of photography, but still comparisons of diff cameras are prevailed. I have a lot of pictures on my walls – some film some digital. The point is - you always can recognize digitals for something that cannot be technically explained. And my first reason to pick E-1 is it ability to produce film like images – not every time but in most of the cases.
AM
 
jiayaw said:
I agree that photographs could be modified, but sometimes most
viewers of the photos would just be more impressed if hte photo
look really artistic even tho it was untouched... so usually if I
dont do anything major besides sharpening, curves and stuff i do
for raw conversions, I will just say that they are "basically"
unedited... just to save the trouble of explaining technical stuff
to them.... unless if its this forum, then i would tell them my
workflow... lol. But definitely, a cmaera is just a tool to create
art.
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I do now something I normally hate: Digging out Ansel Addams.
I don't think anybody ever had asked him "Wow, how did you do that?"

Can't people just look at an image and enjoy it, without going into the mundane aspects of technique? Sure, this is a technical forum, and people want to learn from each other - no problem with that, but I think that when people go too deep into the techniques and copy each other's techniques without any thinking, the art gets lost on the way, and photography starts to become a mass product - from different photographers, but indescernible from each other.

From a good negative, I oftentimes came up with ten or more different prints in the darkroom, depending on my mood and thoughts of the subject. What I never did, was writing down the techniques used to make a specific print, besides basic things exposure time, aprture, developer and developing time. The rest was phantasy.
Which doesn't mean that a photo straight out of camera can't be art.

This rambling rant was nothing against jiayaw. It is just what came to my mind reading his post.

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You are so right. In many cases we are talking more about weather and clothes and les why we are here. Adams is about why we are here and (unfortunately ;-)) less about technical issues.
AM
 
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