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Sometimes... the image matters more than perfection...

Started May 18, 2017 | Discussions
cerich
cerich Contributing Member • Posts: 580
Sometimes... the image matters more than perfection...
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Or the newest camera, the highest resolution, the best lens etc.
I grabbed my old EPM2 to accompany me as I accompanied my daughter to the aquarium on a school trip, and an almost full memory card!, as in after 6 shots to my surprise told me was full. I deleted some bad shots and changed file size from HQ Jpeg/RAW to med size jpegs only giving me enough room for 60 some shots and wondered why it was full (later at home I see I had a folder on the card my camera didn't see with a bunch of xmas family shots from a couple years ago)
Took some shots at med. Captured the day and the memories.
This stuff is really about that, not gear.

No Flash, poor lighting, moving subject on a older camera that isn't known for fast action..yet it works

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Re: Sometimes... the image matters more than perfection...
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cerich wrote:

Or the newest camera, the highest resolution, the best lens etc.

When it really is? Very rarely really.

If we compare a SLR and lenses from 70's, then there was far more importance for those things in variation of the available optics, compared to today where variation is really so miniscule that it doesn't matter so much in common photography, if at all.

Hen3ry
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ALWAYS... the image matters more than (technical) perfection!
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I shoot in JPEG only all the time, cerich, and I make use of the Panasonic's Ex-Tele function where it takes just the central half of the MPX from the sensor -- 6 MPX in the case of your older E-PM2, 8 MPX in the case of my current G85 and GX7 -- to give a 1.4x tele-extender effect, and produces quality images.

One thing, the Oly JPEGs of the E-PM1/2 -- in fact, the whole Oly line -- were markedly superior to what Panasonic was producing back then. However, the two are on parity now, I think, which allowed me to switch to Panasonic for the better UI.

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s_grins
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Re: Sometimes... the image matters more than perfection...
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Sometimes, in some special occasions...

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Camera in bag tends to stay in bag...

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cerich
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Re: ALWAYS... the image matters more than (technical) perfection!

Hen3ry wrote:

I shoot in JPEG only all the time, cerich, and I make use of the Panasonic's Ex-Tele function where it takes just the central half of the MPX from the sensor -- 6 MPX in the case of your older E-PM2, 8 MPX in the case of my current G85 and GX7 -- to give a 1.4x tele-extender effect, and produces quality images.

One thing, the Oly JPEGs of the E-PM1/2 -- in fact, the whole Oly line -- were markedly superior to what Panasonic was producing back then. However, the two are on parity now, I think, which allowed me to switch to Panasonic for the better UI.

agree, except the EPM2 is 16, so half is 8.

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