Lloyd Chambers comments on the E-M5 - Page 3

bitmatt · #21 July 10th, 2012, 06:22 PM

There's definitely noise at base ISO, this is really not new info. I am finding I really like it, and that is is very manageable in Lightroom. A touch of luminance NR usually smooths out the grain very effectively, or it can be roughed up a bit to add texture to an image. I think the noise adds some character to the E-M5 output.

dhazeghi · #22 July 20th, 2012, 10:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Mikefellh

I already got a reply back. First email he says, "Typo, fixed. Thanks."

Then a minute later I get another email saying, "Can't I have a typo for (censored) sake?"

Not a person I'd want to hang around with!

Well, I don't want to sound like an apologist but IMO everybody's entitled to one bad day...

I've actually met Lloyd, purely by chance, out in eastern California in the middle of snowstorm. We had a nice discussion and he seemed a pleasant fellow. He was testing Leica's S2 at the time IIRC.

At any rate, I would expect more m4/3 reviews from him in the fairly near future.

Also interesting is his view on the DSLR makers in a more recent post: "In this day of expensive DSLRs that can’t manage to integrate an EVF, or even offer more than crudely dumb Live View (both Canon and Nikon deserve criticism there), the DSLR is increasingly looking like a dinosaur for many situations."

If shooters as particular as him feel that way, it's a good sign for m4/3 and other upstart formats, IMO.

DH

FlyPenFly · #23 July 20th, 2012, 12:30 PM

I mostly agree with most of his reviews when I used to pay for his site. He is a lot more methodological in his testing than every review site out there. He is a bit Nikon biased but I guess so am I.

I also agree that there can be some very slight not objectionable noise at base ISO on the E-M5.

SkiHound · #24 July 20th, 2012, 01:04 PM

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Originally Posted by michaeln

Tri-X pushed to 800 or 1200. Them was the daze!

I remember those daze. They were the hazy, lazy, grainy daze of summer. Watched a video called something like "spend a day shooting with Jay Maisel. Though he was shooting with a FF Nikon (some variant of the D3 if I recall correctly) his first bit of advice was to crank the iso to 1600. He then said something like he'd never seen a great photo that noise ruined. Of course he's not shooting landscapes and a little noise probably doesn't impact the kind of photographs he takes much, but I thought it an interesting comment.