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 Re: Still no love for the Ricoh GXR? | |
Kit, I think it looks fine and agree with Henrik that there\'s probably some more sharpness that could be gained had it been done at a higher shutter speed.
Henrik, what you commented about your shutter speed threshold is pretty much my experience with the M9. 50mm lens at 1/60 is dicey for me, and definitely prefer 1/125 or higher. Something that is evident using the magnified focus assist on the GXR is just how unsteady I am... and have certainly become spoiled by IS on some of my Canon lenses.
I finally had a chance to get out and use the GXR a bit and tried most of my M lenses on it. I agree about the CV15, it works very nicely and definitely peaks in resolution somewhere between f/5.6 and f/8. The only apparent benefit of using f/8 is slightly less vignetting and more depth of field, if needed. By f/11 there is definitely an onset of diffraction softness.
Here are some photos:
A visit by NPS to the newspaper where I work from time to time:
One thing I noticed on the camera and finally looked at on the computer is the GXR\'s white clipping point. In the photos above the top of the technician\'s white ball cap and the many white objects around him were showing the highlight clipping warning. However, no problem with any blown whites from the RAW files, so Ricoh is probably being a bit conservative with the warning. Lenses above were 21 Lux for the first two, at around f/2.8 for a bit of depth of field, and CV15 for the third, wide open, all at ISO 800. The files at 100% with no luminance NR in LR have some granularity, perhaps more than I\'d see from the M9, but if desired, do clean up very nicely with luminance NR.
Here are some from outside at a cemetery:
Lenses in order: 21 Lux, 50 Lux ASPH, CV15 x2, CV35 f/1.2 II, 21 Lux.
These all had a fair amount of tweaking in post, with burning, dodging, hue shifts, contrast, etc.. just having some fun, and finding that I can process these pretty similarly to the M9, though perhaps can\'t dig out the shadows quite as aggressively. And I think the M9 files are somewhat \'thicker\' feeling. Not sure if that makes sense.
Coming from the M9, Canon 1DIV and my few weeks with the NEX-5N, I have to admit I do miss the higher resolution. It\'s not a huge difference, but it\'s there, especially with any cropping.
Hope you don\'t mind all the images... maybe we can turn this into a bit of an image thread as well instead of starting up a separate one that likely will have minimal participation?
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