Recent content by convexferret

Shaun, to explain (at least partly) the grain issue, do a bit of googling for Grain Aliasing. A low resolution scan of a grainy negative will accentuate the grain noticeably.

Maximum exposure will result in minimum noise. But maximum depends on the photo, in particular you need to be careful not so clip anything important. In some cases you need to underexpose to hold highlight detail and recover the shadows in post. In more modern cameras the penalty for this is not...

Any SLR with live view, yes. But it's much slower than the equivalent in mirrorless cameras. Firstly because mirrorless manufacturers have spent a lot more time perfecting it than the main SLR manufacturers, but mostly because SLR lenses are not designed for the small rack-back-and-forth...

Using contrast-detect autofocus such as we have on the E-M1 or E-M10 it will be more accurate than your DSLR at all apertures. The downside of contrast-detect is that it doesn't have target position (in front of, behind the focus position) information available as phase-detect does and therefore...

You seem to have ignored the part about Magic Lantern. And in the case of backup, not in the sense that my main card dies, but rather that I forget to put my CF card back in the camera before venturing out.

It's not that you left something out, what you said was simply wrong. I always have an SD card in the camera, both as a backup in case of problems with the CF and to carry my magic lantern installation. But as I only write to the CF card I can do so at full speed.

Installation doesn't matter. Things only slow down if the SD card is in use.

On the subject of video quality, while the E-m10 does have the stabilizer, the actual video quality and video options are much better on the GX7. Fuji video is terrible.

It'd be worth it for the RAW histogram and the dual ISO mode alone.

The beta version is generally very stable. I've not had an issue in months, and I've never had an issue that wasn't solved by removing the reinserting the battery. ML is not installed on your camera, it's loaded from the card on startup (thus the slower startup).

I would suggest that part of the attraction of the x100s is the optical viewfinder. An X-E2 or similar might be a better all-round camera but doesn't have quite the same attraction perhaps. To the OP, I have both an SLR kit and an x100s. I find myself bouncing between them depending on the day...

It depends. That is to say that some developers are completely exhausted in one usage, some can be reused and may even have documentation explaining the variance in development times, and some are designed to be reused and replenished with a % of new solution after every batch. The latter were...

There is one very good reason why the in-camera histogram is at best an approximation of the underlying RAW data. A bayer array contains twice as many green sensels as blue and red. What this means is that if you generate a JPEG from a RAW file with as little processing as possible and no white...