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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 604296" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>I've owned or still own five or six digital cameras. Most were Fujis, but that little Samsung always seems to astound me with picture quality. Photos won't blow up as well as the S5 Pro for sure, and the flash leaves a lot to be desired if that matters. What it does better than 90% of the others is when shooting over water or snow on a bright day. I get very little flare in the lense, and this is why Schnider glass is well known to be the finest lenses on the planet. They also do that one in a wide angle and now they seem to have replaced it with the NX1000. Lots of megapixels, but most goto waste in small sensor cameras. </p><p> </p><p>I shot pics one afternoon with the Olympus Pen ELP1 last spring, and really do like it. Yet it has one draw back, and that is that it a live view camera only. You just cannot hold one as steady as an SLR or range finder where you seat the camera body against your face. Otherwise it's a great little camera with three interchangable lenses (85% of the people never change a lense)</p><p> </p><p>I like Canons, but doubt I'll own one. Their sensors don't do color well unless you good with Photoshop. Plus they don't do whites or true blacks (I know they claim they do). Canon is known for it's SLR's, and when you dump $10K in one it'd better be a good one. Sadly they have a software problem they refuse to recognize, and will not fix. (the famous error 99) Side by side shooting, I see little if any difference between the $10K Canon and the bigger DX series Nikons (also in that price range). The one advantage the bigger Canons and the DX Nikons have is that they use a full sized sensor, but the only thing 98% of us would see is that a 55mm lense is actually a 55mm lense with a full size sensor. IOW no serious advantage here. What the Fujis do best is reds and greens in color. No washed out appearence, and very little if any flares. Their B&W is true B&W, and that's why the are the number one camera for weddings. But they also are a little slow in operation when compaired to a Canon. Means little unless you are doing a basketball game up close. One thing I like about the Olympus is the tilt LCD screen. If your doing macro, this is a serious aid. Most of us will never do that, but I do.</p><p> </p><p>Now I use Photoshop and a couple other programs, and I hate working with them! I used to do all that RAW stuff and then build the photo on the PC. Now I shoot 95% in JPEG. Nearly 100% of the photos you'll see in a magazine are done with Photoshop to correct flares and clor saturation problems. I'm from the school that says if you have to do this, then it's time to relearn the game. I might add here that the Optical zoom is a nice feature, but also can create problems. You can blow up photos on a PC to just about anything you want, and even go so far as to pick out individual pixels that offend you.</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 604296, member: 25383"] I've owned or still own five or six digital cameras. Most were Fujis, but that little Samsung always seems to astound me with picture quality. Photos won't blow up as well as the S5 Pro for sure, and the flash leaves a lot to be desired if that matters. What it does better than 90% of the others is when shooting over water or snow on a bright day. I get very little flare in the lense, and this is why Schnider glass is well known to be the finest lenses on the planet. They also do that one in a wide angle and now they seem to have replaced it with the NX1000. Lots of megapixels, but most goto waste in small sensor cameras. I shot pics one afternoon with the Olympus Pen ELP1 last spring, and really do like it. Yet it has one draw back, and that is that it a live view camera only. You just cannot hold one as steady as an SLR or range finder where you seat the camera body against your face. Otherwise it's a great little camera with three interchangable lenses (85% of the people never change a lense) I like Canons, but doubt I'll own one. Their sensors don't do color well unless you good with Photoshop. Plus they don't do whites or true blacks (I know they claim they do). Canon is known for it's SLR's, and when you dump $10K in one it'd better be a good one. Sadly they have a software problem they refuse to recognize, and will not fix. (the famous error 99) Side by side shooting, I see little if any difference between the $10K Canon and the bigger DX series Nikons (also in that price range). The one advantage the bigger Canons and the DX Nikons have is that they use a full sized sensor, but the only thing 98% of us would see is that a 55mm lense is actually a 55mm lense with a full size sensor. IOW no serious advantage here. What the Fujis do best is reds and greens in color. No washed out appearence, and very little if any flares. Their B&W is true B&W, and that's why the are the number one camera for weddings. But they also are a little slow in operation when compaired to a Canon. Means little unless you are doing a basketball game up close. One thing I like about the Olympus is the tilt LCD screen. If your doing macro, this is a serious aid. Most of us will never do that, but I do. Now I use Photoshop and a couple other programs, and I hate working with them! I used to do all that RAW stuff and then build the photo on the PC. Now I shoot 95% in JPEG. Nearly 100% of the photos you'll see in a magazine are done with Photoshop to correct flares and clor saturation problems. I'm from the school that says if you have to do this, then it's time to relearn the game. I might add here that the Optical zoom is a nice feature, but also can create problems. You can blow up photos on a PC to just about anything you want, and even go so far as to pick out individual pixels that offend you. gary [/QUOTE]
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