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Pen-F : the best Olympus ever for image quality ?

Started Apr 28, 2017 | Discussions thread
Loga Senior Member • Posts: 1,981
Re: Pen-F : the best Olympus ever for image quality ?
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alexzz wrote:

I'm really surprise but face to face, in DPReview 'Image quality', the Pen-F has better sharpness and better contrast than the EM1 MKII.

At 100 or 3200 iso, in raw or jpeg, ...

So I decide to compare to other Olympus (EM10, EM5, EP5, ...), and everytime the Pen-F gives the best image quality.

Any explanation ?

I always find pictures from Pen-F a bit flat. However, still a bit better, than the 16mp Olympus era. Punchy, colorful, but has no depth. But if you look at just test charts, you'll never see this. I find this a bad trend that sharpness and noise is everything today, while the ability of drawing fine transitions is something that only a few speaks of. In this regard, the Pen-F is weak as well, even if it is better than the rest you mentioned. However, I find the GX8 very good. I don't know whether it is worse on 2D test charts than the Pen-F or not, but it has very deep images.

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