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chancy
Mon Oct 09, 2006 7:32 pm

Re: Comparison Test: Leica 14-50mm vs Zukio Digital 14-54mm
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Hello Tomcat,

Thanks for clearing the muddled facts in my head, you're correct to point out that the imaging processing engine has no role in the affecting the lens evaluation. Venus & TruePic are hardware image processing engines that characterizes the Panasonic and Olympus look respectively, esp. out of camera JPGs.

As for JPGs processed from SW based RAW converters. I am inclined to believe that by defining how much information they capture in RAW & Olympus' intimate knowledge of this format during RAW conversion, they are (as would most camera manufacturers) draw on these advantages to extract out the extra bits of quality & help define the 'look' that generic RAW converters overlook, although it's just as much about programmer ability as well :-)

I also think that even if both E330 & the L1 share the same sensor, they may be written to different RAW formats exploiting the LiveMOS sensor in their own ways. Hence, this may account for slight differences in resuults as well. But this point is not in context of the tests conducted but rather a comparison between SP & Studio.

I think what the word that pops in mind from the tests of the samples is consistency, that is consistency in colour contrast across F-stops & focal lengths.

Thanks for your clarifications.