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Re: [OM] E-3 versus E-1 - pictures better with E-1

Subject: Re: [OM] E-3 versus E-1 - pictures better with E-1
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 19:07:20 +0000
Am I right in thinking, Joel, that these settings matter only for non- 
RAW capture?

Chris

On 8 Feb 2009, at 13:13, Joel Wilcox wrote:

>
> I managed a few shots late yesterday afternoon with the E-3 using the
> VIVID setting.  It's not really vivid as in Velvia vivid, but it
> brings one more within range of the CS2 setting on the E-1. The danger
> at all times with the E-3 seems to me to be over-saturation of blue.
> I like its rendering of blue iniitially, but any further increase in
> overall saturation tends to overdo the blue.  Sometimes the remedy is
> to saturate generally, and then select blues and desaturate them back
> to what they were.
>
> Interestingly, though I was shooting at magic hour, Auto WB put the
> color temp at 4900.  If I change it to 5300 (daylight) in LR, it seems
> less accurate in a way such that I tend to prefer what I saw with Auto
> WB.  This is weird to me and quite different from the E-1.  Overall,
> the E-3 seems more accurate than the E-1, which is not to say it is
> necessarily more pleasing by that fact.  There is somewhat more to
> choose from in settings as well.
>
> I'm interested in what others are using as their standard settings  
> on the E-3.

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