[Leica] IMG: M8 vs. OM-D, real people pictures

[ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)]

thanks

ric


On Dec 28, 2012, at 11:55 PM, Peter Klein <pklein at threshinc.com> wrote:

> The following is unscientific, but probably useful.  These pictures were 
> shot at the same house, in the same general situation (festive occasions), 
> with much the same lighting, some of the same people, and too much food. 
> The difference is that the first picture of each pair below was taken with 
> a Leica M8 and 35/1.4 Summilux ASPH at ISO 640.  The second picture of 
> each pair (Christmas Eve this year) was taken with an OM-D E-M5 and a 
> Panasonic 20/1.7 at ISO 3200. Each pair was taken at roughly the same 
> place, and so has similar lighting unless the bulbs were changed to 
> something different in between the pictures.
> 
> Both lenses were used somewhere between wide open and closed down one 
> stop.  Everything was shot RAW and processed with Capture One, using the 
> defaults, and making the white balance look reasonably good to my eye, but 
> without my trying to go against the basic nature of the camera.
> 
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/friends/erevxmas2011/L1008813.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/xmaseve2012/PC240049-w.jpg.html>
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/friends/NewYear2011-12/L1009035.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/xmaseve2012/PC240053-w.jpg.html>
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/friends/erevxmas2011/L1008832.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/xmaseve2012/PC240067-w.jpg.html>
> 
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/friends/ErevXmas09/L1005913.jpg.html>
> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/pklein/xmaseve2012/PC240069-w.jpg.html>
> 
> Feel free to browse the rest of the folders if you want to see more.
> 
> Here's what I'm seeing so far:
> 
> 1. The M8 with 35mm Summilux is clearly sharper when properly focused. But 
> the E-M5 with 20/1.7 is quite usable. Note that the difference in 
> sharpness is less when both cameras are set at ISO 800, but it is still 
> there, and you can see it even in these Web-sized JPGs.
> 2. Despite the E-M5's wonderful image stabilization, I can get sharper 
> shots at ~1/60 with the M8 than I can with the E-M5.
> 3. The M8 is biased towards pink/magenta, the E-M5 towards yellow. (Yes, 
> I'm using an IR filter on the M8).
> 4. The E-M5 at 3200 is a bit noisier than the M8 at 640. From other 
> sessions not shown here, I see that at 800/640 the E-M5 seems a little 
> less noisy than the M8 in the shadows. So 1600 may be the "sweet spot" for 
> the E-M5. I'm going to shoot New Year's Eve at ISO 1600 rather than 3200, 
> and see how that fares.
> 
> --Peter
> 
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