Lukabulla wrote:
Hi Everyone ,
Am still trying to get to grips with my recent purchase
an OMD - EM1 mk 1 with 14-150 f4 Zuiko .
Results seem to be 'Hit or Miss '.
I've attached some photo's I took outside Buckingham Palace London a few days ago.
One or two came out ok , but some are most naff .
The teapot image is so lousy , colors are very washed out and does not look sharp,
Looks a bit Instamatic ! And the Girl laying flowers is the same ..
The two girls standing with flowers are just about ok .
The guy dressed in the flag is very good
But the woman with a flag is just not punchy enough .
WB was auto , ISO 400 color set to natural .. cloudy day
Is the lens inferior ?
Or perhaps the results are normal for this camera ?
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By 'teapot' you mean the image that also includes the framed Paddington? Assuming yes, here's some thoughts:
1, The lettering in the frame seems sharpest. The EXIF reports f/8.
2, The EXIF also reports manual WB.
3, The colorspace of this posted image is undefined, so who knows how the colors looked on your monitor. Without using sRGB for the posted JPEGs, we could see anything, and we're probably not seeing the colors how you edited the image on your end.
4, The editor was CS5.1
For lens corrections, whether the lens is 'good' or 'bad', you're not picking up modern software-based lens profile updates via your out-of-date editing software.
The depth of field at f/8 doesn't seem deep enough to cover both the teapot and frame in this image. We can't see the AF point, but it would seem a single AF point on the near-edge of the teacup and / or the spout of the teapot might be a better location to focus, especially with a composition where the center-point of the image is outside the plane of sharpest focus. A smaller aperture is probably needed too for this composition.
Regarding your desired colors, you set the manual WB and you chose how to edit the image. If you don't like the results, it's not the camera, not the lens, it's you and your configuration and editing decisions. This is digital photography after all.
All that said, looking at these wonderful images, I think you're being over critical of the results. Where any dissatisfaction remains, look in the mirror, not at the equipment, as everything you might want to change
especially the output colorspace are entirely under your control.