Help E3 Noise

[Peppe]

We've had some success and i thought i'd pass on the findings

With the help from Invictus, we've discovered the Gradation needs to be turned to "normal",
this has made a massive difference to the shots.

And for the "whirring" noise, that was the stabilisation fighting the tripod, once turned off no more (audible) noise

Pep

[Wulfys Kingdom]

That's great news! I knew Olympus couldnt be that noisy at it's best lol.

[Ross the fiddler]

We've had some success and i thought i'd pass on the findings

With the help from Invictus, we've discovered the Gradation needs to be turned to "normal",
this has made a massive difference to the shots.

And for the "whirring" noise, that was the stabilisation fighting the tripod, once turned off no more (audible) noise

Pep

Good'ay,
Another thing to remember is not to leave continuous shutter on (use single shutter) for long exposures as that will cancel the noise reduction process which is a closed shutter exposure equal the shutter time used & subtracted from the original exposure canceling out any hot pixel noise.

Auto gradation (auto shadow control) is a trap for the unwary, but if taken in RAW can be deselected in Olympus Viewer 2 (or Master & Studio) RAW developer. I prefer to use JPEG SF + RAW as memory cards are getting cheaper, bigger & faster then you always have a RAW back up for any necessary editing & JPEG's for those you want to keep as is.

A good habit to get into with IS is to leave it off by default & only turn it on when needed as it will give you less sharp shots when on a tripod.

I also recommend reading all the E3 related articles by by J. Andrzej Wrotniak in his Photo tidbits, The Olympus E-System site.
http://www.wrotniak.net/photo/43/index.html

You will probably want to copy them into a word doc (or several) & print them off for some bed time reading, because there is a lot to read there.

Ross