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Not TOO bad overall, but there's a signifigant lack of control over depth of field.
I'm a happy owner of a Nikon D1, and while I wouldn't expect all the same quality for the price, I felt the E-10 might be an excellent option for a backup camera, and the extra resolution would be a bonus!
Well, a friend of mine recently purchased the camera (on my recommendation). He's an old ex-pro who's only beginning to get back into photography more or less as a hobby. We recently spent a weekend shooting with a number of different models in various location situations.
Image quality OVERALL is beautiful, BUT (and this is a HUGE but!) when you set the camera to maximum wide-open aperture, with the intent of blurring out your backgrounds, there's BARELY any noticeable difference than if you shoot at full auto! The camera seems designed to get as muchg as possible in focus, regardless of the setting or situation. Now, while this may be admirable for a consumer point-and-shoot, this is NOT something you ecessarily want when you're shooting Fashion! Even the one guy who says he uses it outdoors for portraits, I can't imagine he wants a bunch of images that look like snapshots.
To do as direct as possible a comparison, I shot along a fence with a bunch of posts a few inches apart, to see the apparent depth of field. I shot with my D1 and the E10, and did the best I could to make the settings identical, as far as angle of shot, focal length, and aperture.
With my D1, the difference from f11 to f2.0 was striking, as you can probably imagine. The E10, with the same settings, the entire fence was pretty darn crisp in BOTH shots! There was a slight difference, in that some trees and houses that were WAY behind the fence in the distance were softer at f2, but you could still even tell what they were! At f11, they were tack sharp, also. With the D1, there was NO detail visible at all that far back, and the closest and farthest posts of the fence were quite soft.
The E10 IS a very nice camera. However, I cannot see how it can be marketed as a SERIOUS professional tool with such an obvious shortcoming in the control it offers the user.
Problems:
Covered above.
I'm a happy owner of a Nikon D1, and while I wouldn't expect all the same quality for the price, I felt the E-10 might be an excellent option for a backup camera, and the extra resolution would be a bonus!
Well, a friend of mine recently purchased the camera (on my recommendation). He's an old ex-pro who's only beginning to get back into photography more or less as a hobby. We recently spent a weekend shooting with a number of different models in various location situations.
Image quality OVERALL is beautiful, BUT (and this is a HUGE but!) when you set the camera to maximum wide-open aperture, with the intent of blurring out your backgrounds, there's BARELY any noticeable difference than if you shoot at full auto! The camera seems designed to get as muchg as possible in focus, regardless of the setting or situation. Now, while this may be admirable for a consumer point-and-shoot, this is NOT something you ecessarily want when you're shooting Fashion! Even the one guy who says he uses it outdoors for portraits, I can't imagine he wants a bunch of images that look like snapshots.
To do as direct as possible a comparison, I shot along a fence with a bunch of posts a few inches apart, to see the apparent depth of field. I shot with my D1 and the E10, and did the best I could to make the settings identical, as far as angle of shot, focal length, and aperture.
With my D1, the difference from f11 to f2.0 was striking, as you can probably imagine. The E10, with the same settings, the entire fence was pretty darn crisp in BOTH shots! There was a slight difference, in that some trees and houses that were WAY behind the fence in the distance were softer at f2, but you could still even tell what they were! At f11, they were tack sharp, also. With the D1, there was NO detail visible at all that far back, and the closest and farthest posts of the fence were quite soft.
The E10 IS a very nice camera. However, I cannot see how it can be marketed as a SERIOUS professional tool with such an obvious shortcoming in the control it offers the user.
Problems:
Covered above.