Leica lenses show extra grain with E-P2

mimetic

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I'm using my Leica M lenses on my new Olympus E-P2, and I've discovered they are generating a lot more "grain" than the m-Zukio 17mm lens that came with the camera. I've seen it in all conditions, with different lenses (Leica and Hexanon). Very odd. Does anyone know what's going on here?

I posted two images which show this here:
http://www.davidgross.org/wordpress/archives/58

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My EP2 does not do this. I have it set to center-weighted, Aperture preferred Auto mode. Turned down sharpening.

My Summicron 50/2 on the EP2, at F4.

st2_butterfly1_f4.jpg


And a Konica UC 28/1.8, at F4, on the EP2:
house_f41.jpg


It looks like you have edge sharpening or "something" going on with the image. Go through the MANY (too many) settings and menu's. Make sure you do not have an "ART" setting engaged. Like Mosaic Tile Filter or whatever is in there.
 
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Are your pictures 100% enlarged? They do not look as if taken by a 28mm lens; maybe I am wrong. They both look horrible, that is what I see.
 
For legacy lenses on u4/3, I think about 40mm is the shortest you can go, before corner softness and f4 the highest you can go before diffraction.

With APS-C like the NEX, you can go maybe down to 28mm with good corners, and up to 5.6 without diffraction limitation.

So on u4/3 with legacy lenses, there is just no way, no how with wide and slow.
 
It looks like you stripped the EXIF data -- was it shot at high-ISO? I know my E-P2 is quite noisy at 1600 (I am mainly used to a D3). Hard to tell but it seems like a crop from a larger noisy image.
 
It looks like you stripped the EXIF data -- was it shot at high-ISO?

I agree with you, it looks like was using the high ISO.

Olympus Pen E-P1 + Leica Summilux-M 50mm f1.4 ASPH

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Olympus Pen E-P1 + Leica Summilux-M 35mm f1.4 ASPH

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My new RF camera lens conversion
E-P1 with MINOLTA ROKKOR-PF 45mm f1.8

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