E-330 horizontal banding and lackadaisical Oly support

[Blu-By-U]

....ghosting/banding (and narrow RAW dynamic range) ... bodies using NMOS sensors. ....

Strangely the newer E-330 do not have that.

 

[VSonic06]

Strangely the newer E-330 do not have that.

Try shooting into bright subject against a dark background. I've tested with 2 other E-330s (bought a year apart) and they show similar ghosting trails.

 

[Blu-By-U]

Post some pictures as examples please. This would be interesting.

 

[tomcat]

I wonder if this problem is also limited to certain unfortunate sets.
I tried shooting a table lamp and a computer screen in a dark room this morning at ISO 800 and ISO 1600 and couldn't see any horizontal bands in the dark areas of the images on the LCD display of the camera at 14x magnification.

I will download them onto the computer and check later on tonight. Maybe also have to 'torture' the images inhumanely to the brink of death just to have them give up the 'ghost' horizontal bands. :dunno:

 

[cjtune]

I wonder if this problem is also limited to certain unfortunate sets.

This would be good:

1.) as then affected owners can then find some benchmark good units (and there would be many E-510 owners by now) and use them to very obviously point out that they have faulty sets and that should qualify for replacements/servicing.

2.) There is hope after all, for a no banding NMOS sensor/circuitry.

 

[cjtune]

Try shooting into bright subject against a dark background. I've tested with 2 other E-330s (bought a year apart) and they show similar ghosting trails.

How do ghosting trails look like?

 

[VSonic06]

How do ghosting trails look like?

Dark horizontal streaks/bands stretched to the edges. Don't have the samples on this system now but i'll post when I find them. It was much milder than that on the E-510 so if I clip off the shadow region (15-20/255) they're almost unnoticeable. I shoot a lot of projection screens at events.