Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The new Olympus Evolt (E-300) landed on my doorstep the day before Xmas; it's Olympus's competitor for the digital Rebel and D70 (and is the DSLR with a series of mirrors rather than a prism, which gives it a flat top, and more compact size.) Anyway, among it's more interesting features is a really, really good built-in black and white mode, and, in addition to the usual contrast, saturation, and sharpness options in the menus, a high-key/normal/low-key option. Here are three black and white images, and one color - http://gallery.leica-users.org/BDCOLENPHOTOS?page=1 "At the movies" and the garage shot were taken in high-key, the shot of my daughter and the kitten were in normal. The movie shot is noisy - all three were shot at 800 - but is also hideously underexposed, which will lead to noise, or grain ;-). Comments, vicious attacks, etc. welcome. :-) B. D.