As the E-3 price has went down quite a bit, I finally decided to get my E-3 the last the 2 days and managed to do some comparison with my E-510 today.
I was very disappointed when I find out that my new E-3 produces much softer images than my one year old E-510.
All the test images were shot in RAW format, on tripod with 2 seconds timer, and with noise filter turned off. The lens that was used is the ZD 12-60mm @ 60mm and F5.6. ISO was set to 100 and shutter speed was set to 1/4s.
The RAW images were then converted to JPEG format using Olympus Master v2.12 with white balance set to 5000K.
Below are the results in 100% crop (please click to enlarge):
Crop 1:
E-3 (Sharpness +0, Contrast +0, Natural Mode):
E-3 (Sharpness +2, Contrast +2, Natural Mode):
E-510 (Shapness +0, Contrast +0, Natural Mode):
I was very disappointed when I find out that my new E-3 produces much softer images than my one year old E-510.
All the test images were shot in RAW format, on tripod with 2 seconds timer, and with noise filter turned off. The lens that was used is the ZD 12-60mm @ 60mm and F5.6. ISO was set to 100 and shutter speed was set to 1/4s.
The RAW images were then converted to JPEG format using Olympus Master v2.12 with white balance set to 5000K.
Below are the results in 100% crop (please click to enlarge):
Crop 1:
E-3 (Sharpness +0, Contrast +0, Natural Mode):
E-3 (Sharpness +2, Contrast +2, Natural Mode):
E-510 (Shapness +0, Contrast +0, Natural Mode):
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