What is the meaning of no AA filter in EPL5?

Jemes Hsu · Nov 20, 2012

I have some rough idea of what is anti-aliasing filter by reading the wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing_filter. Is without anti-aliasing filter a favourable feature?

Let say Olympus release EPL5A variant model with an AA filter, which will you choose? EPL5 without an AA filter or EPL5A with an AA filter?

Detail Man · Nov 20, 2012

Have started a thread in the Open Talk forum which may have some interesting information relative to your question, and may (I hope) be added to by others more knowledgeable that I:

http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/thread/3339100

JCB123 · Nov 20, 2012

Jemes Hsu said:
Jemes Hsu wrote:

I have some rough idea of what is anti-aliasing filter by reading the wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing_filter. Is without anti-aliasing filter a favourable feature?

Let say Olympus release EPL5A variant model with an AA filter, which will you choose? EPL5 without an AA filter or EPL5A with an AA filter?

Without. I would deal with moire by taking plenty of images and/or removing it in post. IMO on current high resolution sensors this will likely be better than having to apply capture sharpening to every image to compensate for AA blur - since sharpening does not yield a proper status quo in any case. As a compromise a weak AA is better than a strong one though.

Regards

John

BSweeney · Nov 20, 2012

Some cameras had a removable AA filter. The Kodak DSLR's come to mind.

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