I will do a different type of camera review. This review will be divided into different parts, with illustrations with actual photos, by me, and for all photographers :)
This first part of the review will focus on low light performance of the E-PM1. For a camera with a smaller sensor, and with a minimum ISO setting at ISO200, it is a real challenge to have good low light performance.
Here is a shot using the camera's night scene mode.
At this resolution, I think the photo looks very decent and I have nothing much to complain about. How about at 100% crop then?
At 100% crop, then you can see that the edges of the face appear to be patches of pixels. What a disappointment.
Exif Data:
ExposureTime - 1/13 seconds
FNumber - 4.00
ExposureProgram - Creative program
ISOSpeedRatings - 1600
ExifVersion - 0221
DateTimeOriginal - 2012:09:02 20:29:48
DateTimeDigitized - 2012:09:02 20:29:48
ComponentsConfiguration - YCbCr
ExposureBiasValue - -0.30
MaxApertureValue - F 3.50
MeteringMode - Multi-segment
LightSource - Auto
Flash - Flash fired, auto mode, red-eye reduction mode
FocalLength - 15 mm
How about I use the aperture priority mode?
I set the ISO to ISO200, aperture priority at F10. Exposure time is 6 seconds. Again, it looks pretty decent at this resolution. How about at 100% crop?
Noise is very visible. To reduce the effect of noise, I run the photo through noiseware. Here is the 100% crop after noiseware treatment.
We can still see some noise artifacts. I must say the low light performance of the camera is very much left to be desired. It is a far cry from my old old Canon EOS20D at ISO200.
In addition, probably the camera is still new to me. I am not very good with the focusing yet. Quite a number of photos are out of focus, although the face detection feature was in use. To give it a more fair comment, I will need to get myself familiar with the focusing under harsh conditions.
This first part of the review will focus on low light performance of the E-PM1. For a camera with a smaller sensor, and with a minimum ISO setting at ISO200, it is a real challenge to have good low light performance.
Here is a shot using the camera's night scene mode.
At this resolution, I think the photo looks very decent and I have nothing much to complain about. How about at 100% crop then?
At 100% crop, then you can see that the edges of the face appear to be patches of pixels. What a disappointment.
Exif Data:
ExposureTime - 1/13 seconds
FNumber - 4.00
ExposureProgram - Creative program
ISOSpeedRatings - 1600
ExifVersion - 0221
DateTimeOriginal - 2012:09:02 20:29:48
DateTimeDigitized - 2012:09:02 20:29:48
ComponentsConfiguration - YCbCr
ExposureBiasValue - -0.30
MaxApertureValue - F 3.50
MeteringMode - Multi-segment
LightSource - Auto
Flash - Flash fired, auto mode, red-eye reduction mode
FocalLength - 15 mm
How about I use the aperture priority mode?
I set the ISO to ISO200, aperture priority at F10. Exposure time is 6 seconds. Again, it looks pretty decent at this resolution. How about at 100% crop?
Noise is very visible. To reduce the effect of noise, I run the photo through noiseware. Here is the 100% crop after noiseware treatment.
We can still see some noise artifacts. I must say the low light performance of the camera is very much left to be desired. It is a far cry from my old old Canon EOS20D at ISO200.
In addition, probably the camera is still new to me. I am not very good with the focusing yet. Quite a number of photos are out of focus, although the face detection feature was in use. To give it a more fair comment, I will need to get myself familiar with the focusing under harsh conditions.
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