Since my previous post a couple of days ago I have done some extensive testing. Even though it\'s not fair to G1 I have compared it with 5D, because that is what I use.
For reasons explained earlier in this thread I mostly shoot JPG, so that is what I used when comparing too. For G1 the settings are Dynamic Color Film Mode, Contrast -2, Sharpness -2, Saturation 0 and NR -2. I have adjusted AWB to Green +3 and Yellow +1. Now I find the colors in good light very pleasing and similar to 5D most of the time. The format was 3:2 and ISO 100 for all shots.
G1 is wonderful for objects close by, such as urban or nature details. Sometimes such photos turn out even better than what I get from 5D (mostly because the 20/1.7 has better MFD than my Canons, and for these shots the larger DoF helps too). Its B&W Dynamic mode is wonderful. No complaints there.
However, like I mentioned before, as soon as there is more distance to the subject, such as a landscape, cityscape or full body portrait, 5D is usually much better. My husband set up a blind test for me and tried his best to confuse me with large and small apertures etc. , but I picked 5D correctly every single time. There was no pixel peeping - just normal viewing on my 19\" screen.
It was harder when the scene was evenly lit, but when there are both lighter and darker areas (doesn\'t have to be high contrast, but that makes it worse of course) the photos from G1 has muddy dull dark areas that I could spot right away. Then there\'s that slightly gritty look that I see but can\'t really explain in words.
I\'m a bit disappointed now. Instead of convincing me that G1 isn\'t that much worse than 5D I have started to dislike the poor thing.
Sorry about the rambling, but since I had started talking about my concerns in this thread I thought I should follow-up.
Jan 27, 2010 at 09:30 AM
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, but I picked 5D correctly every single time. There was no pixel peeping - just normal viewing on my 19\" screen.