{"id":2043,"date":"2009-09-09T00:20:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2009-09-09T00:24:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T14:24:18","slug":"panasonic-gh-1-at-high-iso-at-an-art-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=2043","title":{"rendered":"Panasonic GH-1 at high ISO at an art gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I ventured to cold, wet, wintry Ballarat – a regional city in Victoria’s central highlands which is hosting an International Foto Biennale photographic exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I took most of my digital gear for the day’s outing including my Canon 1DMIII, Olympus E510 and my Panasonic GH-1, as I had hoped to do a bit of walking around and capture some of the nice mid-19th century gold rush architecture this town offers.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately it rained nearly all day, and given the significant amount of walking I had to do to get from one venue to the next, I decided it would be safer if I left most of my gear in the car in case it became water damaged. I decided then just to take my Panasonic GH-1 with its 14-140mm HD kit lens, just in case I came across something interesting, like this wonderful little cottage with Hardenbergia violacea<\/em> creeper in bloom:<\/p>\n

\"Miners<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the venues was the very nice Ballarat Fine Art Gallery<\/a> – a must for those visiting this region, and given the pouring rain outside, I took advantage of the time there to browse through their collection of Australian paintings.<\/p>\n

Had I thought this might eventuate, I would have brought along a faster aperture lens instead of the f\/5.6 on the kit lens, but nevertheless, I was quite surprised at how well the GH-1 coped with hand held shutter speeds down to 1\/20th sec (with its IS on) and at ISO 1600, and even ISO 3200.<\/p>\n

As I was with friends, all were taken quite quickly at default camera settings, hand held, aperture priority with AWB, although for the darker paintings I adjusted exposure compensation.<\/p>\n

The main issue at these ISO’s is not really image noise but the horizontal banding artefact<\/strong> which has plagued many a digital camera, not only the GH-1. If you click on the following images (particularly the Tom Roberts one) to see them in larger view, you will be able to make this out of you look closely.<\/p>\n

Tom Roberts painting The Wood Splitters<\/em> taken at 1\/20th sec ISO 1600:<\/p>\n

\"Tom<\/a><\/p>\n

Charles Blackman’s Street Scene<\/em> also taken at 1\/20th sec at ISO 1600, again, no PS:
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\n\"Blackman\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Frederick McCubbin’s painting, The Letter<\/em> taken at ISO 3200 – this was a very dark painting and the exposure reasonably accurately reflects this:<\/p>\n

\"McCubbin\"<\/a><\/p>\n

More of my photos of paintings in art galleries here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Panasonic GH-1 Micro Four Thirds camera<\/a> won’t replace my Olympus E510 with ZD 50-200mm lens, and is still too big for shirt pocket party point and shoot work, but it does make a great, versatile walkaround camera that is perfect for documentary style and travel photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I ventured to cold, wet, wintry Ballarat – a regional city in Victoria’s central highlands which is hosting an International Foto Biennale photographic exhibition. I took most of my digital gear for the day’s outing including my Canon 1DMIII, Olympus E510 and my Panasonic GH-1, as I had hoped to do a bit of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-panasonic-gh1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t