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100-300 vs. 50-200+1.4TC: surprised!

Started Jun 1, 2014 | Discussions thread
Anders W
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Re: 100-300 vs. 50-200+1.4TC: surprised!
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luisflorit wrote:

AV Janus wrote:

Because it is a bit grainy. You can see it in all the fine color trasitions and darker single color frame parts.
I see it on my EM5 as well.
If you want perfect studio quality smoothness you must brushit with a de-noise brush
Its irritating for some spetial shots. Urrelevant for most. But it there. M43 curse.

It's not just a sensor size thing. It is noisier at base ISO than my E5, that also has a 2x crop factor. Of course, it has more resolution, so you could blame that. Still, much better high ISO than my E5, what is strange due to the lower IQ at base ISO. I confess I don't understand why, I just know it is noisy.

If it is noisier than your E-5 at base ISO, even if comparing on a per-pixel basis rather than at equal resolution, there is something wrong. Although I don't know the E-5, I know both sensors. I have a G1 (E-5 sensor), an E-M5, and an E-M1, and the last two are miles ahead at any ISO. Don't have anything but uninteresting test pictures to offer from the E-M1 yet. But do you see much in the way of noise here?

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