Camera face off: Hawaiian Peppers and Chickens
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Chickens with Hawaiian Peppers
Top two: Panasonic GH1 (Cloudy WB, Dynamic color)
Bottom: Ricoh GX100 (AWB, Standard color)
The Ricoh nails it for AWB, although I have to say I can see the quality in the GH1 image.
Man! Those peppers in that close proximity to those free range chickens makes my mouth water! 😉 The beginnings of a great meal!
Paul,
It would be interesting to raise some as broilers, but those would be pretty expensive chickens! I’m hoping that we will at least come close to the price of organic free-range eggs with these.
For some reason red chillies & plastic background colors in the top one looks similar enough to the bottom one … oh, I see: first was exposed at 1/80s while the second at 1/125s.
That does not count for the color difference with the last one which was exposed close enough to the second. BTW, what were the color temperatures & mired values, if possible to access them?
On the way to dinner, it dawned on me that there are exposure differences (don’t know how this table would turn out inside ‘pre’ tag) among all three …
P A P B R A - Panasonic A: f/4.5, 1/80s 0 +2/3 +1/3 - Panasonic B: f/4.5, 1/125s -2/3 0 -1/3 - Richo A: f/4.1, 1/125s -1/3 +1/3 0Further, for a proper face off, should use same type of white balance (cloudy vs cloudy, AWB vs AWB), if not outright setting custom white balance with help of the same target.
Parv,
Yes, of course it is hardly a fair face off. In fact, that is only the catchy title of the post and not my intent at all. I shoot mostly JPEG, so I like a camera that can nail the WB. The Ricoh has always accorded itself well in this regard. I was merely posting an informal comparison of AWB shots. I find that I need to shoot the Pana with dynamic color enabled to get a more reasonable default WB. Neither camera was spot on in the dark, cloudy late afternoon conditions, but the Ricoh was closer. I am going to do some comparisons with RAW. I only hope I can find a decent open source RAW processor for the GH1 files.