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Re: [OM] White-balance / colour balance issues... What to do?

Subject: Re: [OM] White-balance / colour balance issues... What to do?
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:44:23 -0400
I wasn't aware that Olympus Master was so limited.  Glad I'm not using it.

Chuck Norcutt


C.H.Ling wrote:
> With Canyon DPP it may be ok but for Olympus Master not, there is no curve 
> under RAW manual, you can't make subtle adjustment, the contrast step is too 
> wide for my taste. Olympus Master do has curve under "Edit" manual but you 
> lost the WB and Exposure control what a strange design. Olympus Studio 2 
> integrated them but you have to pay for it.
> 
> There are many other post processing require 16 bit like highlight/shadow 
> control, softer effect workflow also require curve up the brightness after 
> processing.
> 
> C.H.Ling
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Chuck Norcutt"
> 
>> However, when processing the raw file, if you have done all adjustments
>> that affect pixel brightness (exposure, shadows, highlights, color
>> balance, saturation, etc, etc, then there is no need to save the output
>> file in other than JPEG since 16 bit precision will no longer be
>> required.  The only remaining editing operation that can affect pixel
>> brightness level is sharpening and that will be minor and OK in JPEG.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>>
>> C.H.Ling wrote:
>>> To make it simple, I recommend Olympus Master 2 (it is free) to covert 
>>> your
>>> image. I mainly use the Exposure and WB function (a slide bar to set the
>>> color temp you wanted), you can also adjust contrast, sharpness,
>>> saturation... like you do inside the camera. For E-300 it even gives the
>>> option of disable the noise filter to gain more sharpness that is not
>>> available in the camera JPEG setting.
>>>
>>> With E-1 I usually set -1/3 stop during shooting so that you can have 
>>> more
>>> room for highlight which does not recover well with Olympus Master. For
>>> under exposed image you can do a lot to it up to +2 stop during RAW
>>> conversion.
>>>
>>> You can save your converted file in 16 bit Tiff or 8 bit JPEG for further
>>> processing.
>>>
>>> C.H.Ling
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