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Andre, I just like the pictures of the E-1 that I saw much more than the ones of the 20D

(and other Oly-models)... Resolution and sharpness is not everything - the Canon tends to

look "supernatural"...

 

Joachim Baldauf is a new star photographer of germany (see Wallpaper, Vogue...) and he

shot his latest book project ("The subjective man") with a - old fashioned - E-20! This was

last year... And he blowed them up to huge pictures for an impressive exhibition...

 

See all http://www.shotview.com (> Joachim Baldauf > Projects)

Hi

 

I already asked me if Olympus can`t offer E1-owners (probabely me) a 8MP sensor/chip

update... Possible?

 

And: The Canon is out of race for me... ;-)

 

Nat

Yes, I like the C8080 (from design), but do you think you get equal picture quality to the

E-1? I doubt...

Here are excellent photographs (for my taste), shooten with an Olympus C-5050 Zoom (!)

 

http://www.olympusamerica.com/e1/gal_amajoli.asp

 

He won two awards (among others `Magazine Photographer of the year`) with this camera

(which is way below a E-1)...

 

:-O

Robert, don`t you think it will be dated in two years? :-/

 

By the way, it seems that there will only be a new high class E-Olympus (many thousend $)

this year but no new E-1, E-3... Also a low budget SRL (lower than E300) is planned.

Ivaylo, I guess with a Phase One digital back everybody could make a "professional"

fashion story (except of the real artists, they are something different) - it`s somehow like

Formula 1, the car is more important than the driver... Many fashion stories are like

snapshots but with a better camera and a lot image processing. John, unfortunately I have

not the money for such a high professional equipment since I`m only just at the start of a

professional career...

Seems that the E-3 (replacement of E-1) will be announced in early summer and be

delivered in autumn or later... Wow, a hard decision :-(

 

I just ask me if I could use the standard lense of E-1 (14-54) for the new model - or if

they have a better one then... :-?

Bas, thanks for your advices! How does Phase One harmonize with Photoshop CS?

The most quiet camera, I guess, is the Leica Digilux 2... Excellent for reportage/street

(and quick).

 

What about the 5 MP of the E-1? Is it right, that it is due to its special system equal to a 8

MP...?

Also the photographs have not such a "digital" look (as it seems to me?)...

Yes, I have an analog Olympus at the moment (IS2000) - and it gives excellent pictures...

 

So we are looking forward to the E-3... ;-)

 

And for reportage / snapshots I wait for the new Leica Digilux...

No, not in the studio - more outside and snapshot style (even if it is fashion). But colour

and atmosphere is more important than noise (or absence of noise)...

 

I liked the photographs of E-1 and Digilux 2 that I saw more; they had something special -

can it be that they have a better algorithm?

 

I need definitely something high level and professional - although my budget is limitated

;-)

Alright, what should I buy, an old Olympus E-1, an old Leica Digilux 2 or a new Canon EOS

20D? :-O Picture quality (especially for art, portrait, fashion) is everything for me...

Hi all

 

I `ve read great things about the picture quality and handling of the Olympus E-1. But it`s

now two years ago since this model was announced and I think a new model must follow

in the next months... Don`t you think so? Has anyone knowledge of a new E-2?

 

I guess it would be a bad buy if I would buy it now (with a 8 pixel follower in the near

future).

 

Thanks.

 

Nat

I work with a 17Inch LCD Apple too (5300 K native whitepoint) - and my prints are a bit

cooler than what I see on the screen. I guess we should let the whitepoint (according to

Andrew) and correct the picture for print with a bit yellow...

 

I work with a professional printer profile. My problem is that the print is also pretty much

darker than the screen picture. My question to Andrew: Is this because my Apple LCD

brightness is on max.? Is the picture in fact darker? Or what could be the reason for this?

What is the best brightness for image editing on Mac?

 

Thanks

 

Nat

I am interested in this question too... ???

This is a great thread.

 

<the role of the white point of the display and the white point of the paper>

 

Yes, that's what I never understood. Can I read somewhere in the net about this...?

 

When I work with 'paper white' in the proof my pictures loose all (almost all) colour although I have a professional profile for my paper. When I print it out it's not that bad...

 

It's a shame, Windows can't produce a color-aware system (Photographers can work on Apple but what about the 90 % of watchers in the web with IE, which are looking at the picture?) - and yes, K T, this is how it SHOULD be...

I never understood this thing with "paper white"... It just makes the picture washed out.

 

??

He should have taken a model that looks like picture 1 - so he didn't have to retouche. I just take models that have a look that I would LIKE to see on photograph - so no (or almost no) retouching is necessary... This is somehow strange.

To hell with IE! I had success when i converted from sRGB to my own monitor profile (which is maybe a sin, but my colors are now right). In the other case, pictures are in IrfanView and IE always much paler... (which is not acceptable)

 

Profile is not saved with the picture in any case - so it should play no role for ICC-unaware applications... :-?

I think it's not the fault of your models but your 'fault'. You don't w a n t the models in an ordinary fashion style, you catch some other moments... But it's ok for an unconventional fashion fotography (see Terry Richardson a.s.o.)...

 

Also art is possible. Just keep this glamourous and cheeky manner and make your photography more fine...

Take a good model and the good poses and moments are coming from itself...

Shadow is very 'actual'. Model has a fantastic body but not enough expression in her face... (best picture regarding this is the third)

 

Wish I could afford studio-work...

 

Nathanael

 

www.theunderweb.ch/foto

Maybe it's a question of the profile... (speaking of loss shadow detail)

thanks for this info, eric! when I convert my pictures in sRGB and look at them in Irfanview, they look pale...