Critique Welcomed Bluebell woods

[Bill Watts]

The Olympus E-10 was one of the first DSLRs to hit the market with a 4mp, 2/3, CCD sensor and at the time it was one of the few cameras that reproduced shades of purple anything like they actually were.

Camera: Olympus E-10,
Lens: fixed zoom 9-36mm (35-140mm equiv)
Exposure: f4.8, 1/640s, ISO 320 @ 140mm



Photo taken near Meldon Quarry Okehampton, End of April/ beginning of May always sees a carpet of bluebells in the woods.

Considering the age of this camera (2000) I think the picture is very sharp and the depth of field highlights the central bloom very well. The colours are spot on. On my high res and colour corrected screen the in focus areas seem to jump out of the monitor.

 

[Ralph Turner]

Lovely. Interesting point regarding the faithful rendering of bluebells. This is something my 6D struggles with.

 

[Bill Watts]

Lovely. Interesting point regarding the faithful rendering of bluebells. This is something my 6D struggles with.

I think it may be something to do with the CCD on the E-10, it has a different response to the current CMOS sensors

 

[Ralph Turner]

Indeed, seems the most likely explanation.

 

[Beth Carter]

beautiful flowers. i wouldn't guess that it was from a nearly 25 year old camera.

 

[Bill Watts]

beautiful flowers. i wouldn't guess that it was from a nearly 25 year old camera.

Yes and it runs on AA batteries!

 

[Beth Carter]

Yes and it runs on AA batteries!

sweet deal!