[Klaus]

There were some hot discussions about the AA filter characteristic in the recent K5 thread.

I've prepared a few images taken with an AA-less Olympus E-520 - please evaluate the full size images and not the thumbnails, of course.



http://photozone.smugmug.com/Reviews/AA-less/



The images were now converted via ACR 6 so the previously posted sample looks different now.



Please vote what you think about the technical quality of these images especially with respect to sharpness vs moiree & color artifacts. Compositon, color rendering and such is meaningless for this purpose.



Thanks!



PS: an AA filter is a low-pass filter mounted in front of a camera's sensor. It serves the purpose to eliminate moirees (color artifacts). The filter is not lossless.