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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: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:33:14 +0200
Sounds like JPEG to me, do you also shoot RAW?
If so, this is kind of non-issue - get the WB dropper (in PS or LR) 
where you think the white should be, that's it.
phx


Olaf Greve wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>It's been a long while since I last posted to the list for anything 
>not-TOPE related, but here goes, a question...:P
>
>At present I find myself temporarily without my own laptop, so I have to 
>make do with a loan machine, but at least I can read my e-mail again.
>
>Now then, the question regards something I've been experiencing ever 
>since I've aqcuired my E-500. The issue is that I've set the White 
>Balance to 'Auto', yet, very often I find the colours displeasing, and 
>almost always, the pictures are greatly improved, and look much more 
>like they should look, when I use options like Paint Shop Pro's "One 
>Step Photo Fix", or Photoshop's equivalent of it (of which I don't 
>remember the exact name, off-hand). Though the end result on most 
>pictures can be tidied up a lot by doing so, I find this very annoying, 
>as it's time-consuming, surely not perfect, and I want the camera itself 
>to be smart enough to not always be so far off. Last weekend I came 
>across an extreme example when taking close-up shots of some big brass 
>shell casings, against a white paper background, using the E-500 + OM->E 
>Adapter ring + 50/3.5 Zuiko Macro + FL-50r (with the diffuser on it). 
>Apart from some nasty shadows, which of course can be (largely) 
>eliminated by using reflectors, or finding a way to bounce the flash, I 
>found the end results very displeasing. Some pictures had come out 
>almost black; really WAY too dark at least... Using the "one step photo 
>fix" gave a HUGE reprieve, but still...
>
>Can anyone tell me if there are any ways to go about solving these 
>issues? Is this something on the camera that's not set properly, or 
>perhaps something going wrong with the adapter ring (though I see 
>similar things happen when using E lenses), or something in combination 
>with the flash????
>
>Also, are there perhaps anyways that one can kind of "debug" this using 
>the comnputer's software like PSP or CS4? Perhaps viewing some of the 
>histograms, a tell-tale histogram appears or so???
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>Olafo
>  
>
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