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My experiences with micro four thirds

Started Jan 19, 2016 | Discussions thread
vett93
vett93 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,465
Re: My experiences with micro four thirds

Brian Isaman wrote:

vett93 wrote:

Brian Isaman wrote:

I like the shots but I'm curious, why did you need so much sharpening? They are 1/2500 or faster and at fairly low ISO, they should have been pretty sharp to begin with.

Guess I did not think they were sharpened too much. I usually apply +70 sharpening...

Hmm I'm not sure 70 would be too much, I often use the full 150 slider in PS and have no such artifacts. Take a look below at the difference at 100%.

These are both at very low ISO so I don't know why there is such a difference in the image. The A7 is a large sensor camera as well so I would have thought the grain would have been less than a GX8. My original thought was that you didn't actually nail focus and used over-sharpening to fix it as the OOF areas usually don't hold up as well to over-sharpening. I'm not sure why else we would see a GX8 with better IQ than an A7.

I see where you are coming from now. The birds' eyes were not in focus. I was aiming at the body.  There is a big difference between our shots. These birds were flying at a high speed and I was doing a panning shot. Yours is stationary.

For a fair comparison, check out the following image. F1.4 on a 35mm 42MP sensor.

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