Re: Good cameras that slipped through the cracks.
Stephen Strangways wrote:
Ken Croft wrote:
Terribly sorry but I just do not believe this. I have both those lenses and also 16 and 20 mpixel Olympus cameras, and no camera with a small imager like the Olympus xz or stylus series produces comparable images. I wonder if you have the gear that you mention. But if you do, I am very happy for you.
I did have the gear that I mentioned - I sold the 14-150 and all four copies of the 40-150 R that I've owned, after doing some comparison tests. Still have the Stylus 1, two XZ-1, and an XZ-2.
I can probably dig the images up and post them here if you don't want to perform your own tests. In the meantime, someone else did a comparison here:
https://www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/4523382
I compared the actual practical usage of the lenses - the Stylus 1 at f/2.8 and the 40-150 at f/4 or f/5.6, therefore the mft body at one or two stops higher ISO to give the same shutter speed. A larger imager with potentially less noise doesn't have much of an advantage when the lens is quite a bit slower.
That was my post above, saves me having to dig back for it!
Yes, I stick with my views, the Stylus images in the centre are no worse than those from my 14-150/EM1ii (provided I keep below the printing size limits imposed by 12 Mp) and much better in the corners. I print at A4 after a good deal of cropping (usually down to 2500 on the long side) and get great results.
I do find that using f2.8 gives poor results, and except for really dark situations I keep to f3.2. I shoot RAW and certainly the images can do with a bit of clarity and other tweeks. The OOC JPEGs seem very good, though, I don't know what they do to them!
I like the handling of the S1 very much, its obviously been designed by a photographer. The only downsides that I have is that the lens ring gets moved very easily so if I do a quick shot, without checking, I may have a silly exposure, and that the AF gets confused pretty easily with, say, a bird in a bush with twigs around it.
I do have my two most used settings on C1 and C2 and that works a treat.
Snce using DXO Deep prime I feel very comfortable using iso 800
If only it was water resistant!
I would be in the queue in a flash for an updated version as well
tom