May 16 2008
Olympus E-520 Shadow Technology - Does It Work?
There is a picture on the Olympus web site depicting a dog laying next to a building. Olympus says the dog is in shadows and that the new Shadow Technology helps to expose the picture “properly”. On the NoBS Photography Forum there has been some debate as to whether this result can be obtained with any camera, given the skill of the photographer.
Andy Armstrong of design|house, who is also a moderator at NoBS has an opinion of whats going on with the light in this picture. It’s a compelling and a good tutorial. Here is his take and a modified picture to go along with it:
“Let’s play “photo CSI” for a second on this one, because it’s deceptive. Now, if you placed a dog in the middle of a field with the sun almost at his back, and exposed for the background, then yes, you’d have a dark dog. However, there are a lot of factors in this image that give the dog extra light (much the way a reflector would). I would suggest that any camera would have similar results in this exact scenario.
See my notes in the image below. ”
(Image copyright Olympus Imaging 2008)
