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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 ?

DeepSilence wrote:

Loga wrote:

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.

Olympus cameras have too much contrast at default settings. Try to set contrast to "-2".
A few examples:

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4060965#forum-post-58432228
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4063943#forum-post-58467863 .

No question, these are very good, and deep pics. Thank you. Do you have some portrait (both in good and in not too good or low light) as well?

Many thanks,

Peter

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