Quote (Antichrist- @ Sep 18 2010 06:33pm)
e-1 seems to have awful lots of noise, it looks bit like on film, but since the camera has so little mega pixels, the pixels start to show up easy with lots of noise and what looks like pixelation(where it differs from nice looking film grain). but if you dont need to crop much and there is much light coming in camera(/ well lit subject, so that you dont need to raise too much cameras sensor sensitivity and get noise from high sensitivity) it seems like a great choice and seems to give colors for jpg pictures. but if you do some minor adjustments in photoshop, you can get same results from newer camera with less noise and more mega pixels so that you can crop more(or make bigger prints or just view details with zoom on computer) before picture starts looking too mushy.
Taking photos without noise is partially a learning curve aspect. Sure some cams do better than others. But if you need to have a camera that has great noise reduction based on shitty exposures then you are cheating yourself imo.
The E-1 is fine at lower ISO's and when it comes to print you won't see a difference at 400 or lower. Really, take a jpeg from today's DSLR at ISO 100 and then print it. Or ISO 400 and print it, take the E-1 at iso 400 and as long as both camera's exposed properly - you won't see a difference in terms of noise or pixelation.
When I shot film throughout the 1990's I usually used iso 100, 200 and 400. 400 was my goto for events and what not. Going above that, even now is very rare. Of course every1 will have different needs. Some people like shooting at midnight with no flash.
And sure it's older technology but it's iso 100 jpgs > currents DSLR jpgs. And if you know about exposure and lighting then there isn't much you cannot overcome.
But as I said earlier, it's not going to be your wedding camera or race-track camera. It's a little slower, but steady and built like a tank.
