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Yes we have tried to cover that.

A series of shots from 100ISO up to 3200ISO (not all but the majority) Not sure if we will be allowed to post these. When we looked at them in the pub most of us were quite satisfied with the raw images, yes there was noise but it was well controlled, the thing that impressed all of us was the lack of detail loss at 3200 and vitually no colour bleed.
The shots were taken of a stained glass window in a dark church in Hathersage.

If we get the go ahead I will put these in the same directory as the comparison shots.

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Andrew
Just trying to get better!!

i first went to belfst in'95 ['96?] on a british council grant to take a look at the art scene there---which was small but pretty cool and lively. an artist from belfast came over and stayed with another artist friend of mine associated with a small alternative space. then i had 2 of the guys [the lads, as my wife and daughters called them] come over and stay with us and sort of associate with the alternative space i worked for at the time.

then i went back in '98 ['99?] to do an installation with a bunch of other artists from all over. so that's a couple of trips and i loved the place. oddly it reminded me of my home town of baltimore in more than a few ways. it also reminded me a lot of britain in the late 60's, somehow. now, we will be flying into dublin thursday morning and driving up from there, stopping along the way at knowth, newgrange, ballynoe, and ballynahatty [if we're lucky! it's a bunch of stops] my daughter has an appointment for a tour at queens' at 2, i think, and then a discussion with a faculty member at 2:45. quick trip to smyth's for a tablecloth, and then to the guest house, the pearl court on the malone road.. next morning the 7am ferry for stranraer, then visits to u of e and st.andrews, then back to the stranraer ferry on the 4th, getting into belfast at 7 pm, and then driving down to dublin for the night.

that's a pretty quick trip, but it'd be great to meet you if you can squeeze us in for a quick pint, probably thursday evening [the 4th looks too tight].

What an increbly beautiful place!

The only things missing are a big tree and a bunch of fair maiden in summer dresses dancing around it.

P.S.: it would seem that the Peak District National Ppark needs a new photographer - you may want to apply

http://www.peakdistrict.org/index/news/news-display-page.htm?id=15050

Snowspond said:

Yes we have tried to cover that.

A series of shots from 100ISO up to 3200ISO (not all but the
majority) Not sure if we will be allowed to post these. When we
looked at them in the pub most of us were quite satisfied with the
raw images, yes there was noise but it was well controlled, the thing
that impressed all of us was the lack of detail loss at 3200 and
vitually no colour bleed.
The shots were taken of a stained glass window in a dark church in
Hathersage.
If we get the go ahead I will put these in the same directory as the
comparison shots.

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Andrew
Just trying to get better!!

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Glad to hear about this. I hope to see these shots. If for some reason you are not able to post them, can you please try to elaborate further on how the E-3 noise and detail compare with current cameras such as the E-1 and 510 or 410 and/or the competition (C & N)?

Cheers,
Phil

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Shoot fast, take chances

Hi Tex sure my friend, we Irish love to share a drop of the Black stuff with you. The Best bar for that and a bit of CRAC the CROWN but it is getting a few repairs but Fibber Magee's just next door is another nice place to sip a few.

Belfast has changed alot of the last few years, and as you said it lookind like the 60's when u where once here. We are a bit behind compared to the rest of the world at the mo but are catching up slowly.

We are like the Peeps from Dublin or just outside it, we are no a fast pace people like London or any other major city, but we do have are charm.

I would like to have your permission to email you and get contact info etc and will take it from there.

Thanks for your responce and god bless for now.

Gerard

This could have been a wonderful comparison of all the Olympus cameras we had along, and was certainly fun...



However, we should have concentrated much more on getting identical settings in cam... when we pulled up the images at the end of the day, there were far too many variables to do a fair comparison. I don't think we can conclude much about any of the cams from that series of shots unfortunately

Kind Regards

Brian
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I included those shots in the batch I submitted to Olympus yesterday... unfortunately someone (no names) took the E-3 shots for Saturday off my machine when they took a copy at the end of the day.. grrrrr... lol at least I should get them back soon, and will get them to Olympus to follow on.

Kind Regards

Brian
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Yes, it's everything I promised before the event... and we've just had a spectacular sunrise this morning, so perhaps I'll get out again today to have some more fun.

I wouldn't want a job though... once you've taken the leap to working for yourself, the freedom and lifestyle is too much to give up

Kind Regards

Brian
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We had a 'working dinner' at the Scotsman's Pack... with the projector, laptops and cameras all out to play, and I got the chance to demonstrate PhotoAcute and LightZone, which were both very well received.

Here's a shot I took at ISO 3200 with the E-1, the first image I've done my best to tidy up using Bibble Pro, and the second one is by PhotoAcute - which is a lifesaver in certain circumstances.





I got some gasps when the image comparison first came up... obviously, you can do a lot with NR software, but PhotoAcute takes it to a whole higher level - and gives you significantly greater real detail.

Kind Regards

Brian
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I've tried it but it couldn't read E-1 orfs. How did you do that?

Best regards,
wido

Brian, is that second image made from a single file or is it stacked?

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John Bean [GMT]

PAW 2007 Week 43:
http://waterfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/2321711/#213472275-XL-LB



Index page: http://waterfoot.smugmug.com
Latest walkabout (30 July 2007):
http://waterfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/3247039

Works on bursts of images... similar to HDR technology but includes CA correction and superresolution.

Loads of detail on their website here :
http://www.photoacute.com/studio/index.html

Kind Regards

Brian
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Best regards,
wido

Thanks a lot to all of you.

I appreciate you effort to compare all the cameras. Well next time there will be no errors. It looks you all has a great fun. One thing is, I'm sure, Oly have a good recipe and all he cooks is fine to consume.;-))

I'm more than happy with E-500 but, My desire (not need) to get a pro camera is bigger than differences between the pictures "look" and quality.
Thanks again and it is great you did that for all of us.

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Cheers
Miro

Brian Mosley said:

Works on bursts of images... similar to HDR technology but includes
CA correction and superresolution.

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That's what I thought. So it's a stack; certainly a convenient way to make a stack but not magic and certainly not really a fair comparison with a single image at the same ISO.

I've manually stacked images a couple of times using PTGui to align awkward hand-held shots and the results are excellent. The other things that PhotoAcute offers are done just as well by lots of other software I already use.

Unless I was doing image stacking on a regular basis I don't think I'd find it tempting at the asking price.

Edit: I was looking at your thread on this subject (I missed it earlier) and I recognise your usual enthusiasm for "unusual" image-processing software ;-)

I just thought I'd add that I'm not being critical of your use of it, just that I can't share your enthusiasm for image stacking no matter how well packaged it may be.

But choice is always good

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John Bean [GMT]

PAW 2007 Week 43:
http://waterfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/2321711/#213472275-XL-LB



Index page: http://waterfoot.smugmug.com
Latest walkabout (30 July 2007):
http://waterfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/3247039

Thanks Brian. Here is the second attempt. All my shots were hand held and these are from the 510 without post processing.

http://longjohn.smugmug.com/gallery/3740442#214951933

http://longjohn.smugmug.com/gallery/3740442#214951944

http://longjohn.smugmug.com/gallery/3740442#214952025

http://longjohn.smugmug.com/gallery/3740442#214952103

John

Hi John, it's a great implementation for noise reduction, HDR and focus stacking, but (AFAIK) unique in that it produces a superresolution output... i.e. creates a genuinely more detailed image than you could create with a single exposure.

Kind Regards

Brian
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I really like this one...



p.s. to insert the image as I've done above, right click and copy image location from your image and then paste it into your post.

Kind Regards

Brian
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Brian Mosley said:

Hi John, it's a great implementation for noise reduction, HDR and
focus stacking, but (AFAIK) unique in that it produces a
superresolution output... i.e. creates a genuinely more detailed
image than you could create with a single exposure.

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I know what you're saying Brian, that's a result of stacking - averaging the image data intelligently. The implementation seems very good but it's not unique in what it's doing; astronomers have been doing this sort of thing for a long time.

Stacking allows you to eliminate differences (which are usually random noise) and emphasise similarities between the individual frames so that the it's possible to resolve detail that is lost in any single image.

It's a technique that has its uses, but in my case not enough to justify its cost.

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John Bean [GMT]

PAW 2007 Week 43:
http://waterfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/2321711/#213472275-XL-LB



Index page: http://waterfoot.smugmug.com
Latest walkabout (30 July 2007):
http://waterfoot.smugmug.com/gallery/3247039

Then why not do an image set for one of your cameras? you then get a free license

It's a bit buried on the site... so here's a tip :
http://www.photoacute.com/studio/newcamera.html

Kind Regards

Brian
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