Table of Contents

Main News

01. Introduction
02. Jpeg & Raw Thoughts
03. Creative Art Filters
04. Level Gauge
05. Live View
06. Body build
07. Auto Gradation
08. More coming soon
09.Image Quality & High ISO performance
10.Overall Impressions

E-30 Creative Art Filters

If you are a Jpeg shooter, and want a very nice B&W image, or soft focus image, than the E-30 is quite unique in this manner. The creative filters do an excellent job. We have to remember that this is a version 1 product. The biggest problems with the creative filters are that they permanently save your jpeg's as those filters and some of them are quite slow in rendering the effects (the worst being the pinhole filter which takes approximately 7 seconds to apply the filter on the camera). And while that is taking place, the camera reads "Busy" and you are unable to take any additional photos during that time. The greatest advantage I can see of the Art filters is that just as in traditional film photography (in which you would use a soft filter) or a specific film on a camera, the camera properly exposes for this criteria which does have many advantages over post processing the effects. Plus I have a soft spot in my heart for getting it right in camera, and the Creative art filters do that well.

The Filters in Action -

Click on the photos below for a larger picture -

Filter	Time to render	Picture	100%
Original	---
Pop Art Filter	No noticeable delay
Soft Focus	2 seconds
Pale and Light	No noticeable delay
Light Tone	No noticeable delay
Grainy Film	3 seconds
Pin hole	Nearly 8 seconds

(I will try to get a few better real life examples soon.)

A Few more examples of the Creative filters -

Standard - Light Tone - Pin Hole

Standard - Pop Art - Pin hole

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