I'm with you and your wife, C.H. To me the C1 image is very slightly
cooler in the fleshtones, giving a dull, muddy look. Might not make as
big a difference on caucasians.
Earl
C.H.Ling wrote:
>For both images, I prefer the Olympus output, I gave a blind test to my wife
>and she prefer the same. I think it is a matter of preference, monitor
>calibration could be one of the reasons but with the latest LCD I don't see
>it a big problem. My company's cheap 17" LCD just render very close to my
>mid-range EIZO except less bright even at max setting. I even merge the four
>images and printed on HP photo paper (with some brightness/contrast
>adjustment), my wife gave me the same answer,
>
>Since we are seeing quite differently, it is still a mystery.
>
>C.H.Ling
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mark Dapoz" <md@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
>>On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, C.H.Ling wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Although they render differently but both are quite nice, I wouldn't say
>>>C1
>>>is much better in skin tone. Even without any sharpening, C1 start to
>>>show
>>>artifacts on the lip when viewing at 200%, very sad to see they just
>>>spent
>>>too little effort on E-1 (while they did very well for C*non RAW).
>>>
>>>
>>Although both images are acceptable, I still find the Olympus version has
>>too
>>much red in the skintones. This becomes even more apparant with a fair
>>skinned
>>subject (as my family happens to be). Here's an example of what I mean.
>>
>>Olympus Viewer 1.3: RAW+0.5EV, camera white balance:
>>
>>http://olympus.dementia.org/misc/E-1/E-1_20050412_173846-Oly.jpg
>>
>>C1 1.7: RAW+0.55EV, camera white balance:
>>
>>http://olympus.dementia.org/misc/E-1/E-1_20050412_173846-C1.jpg
>>
>>The C1 version is much closer to the real-life colour than the Olympus
>>one.
>>Maybe C1 just has a better colour profile than Olympus does. I agree with
>>you
>>about the artifacts, C1 does have slightly more artifacts than Olympus but
>>they are minimised if you use the "soft look" sharpening method.
>>-mark
>>
>>
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