That was very good advice. I downloaded Oly Master 2, installed and
updated it. Much, much better than the version that came with my E-500 three
years ago. Thanks CH Ling.
Charlie
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:43 PM, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Olaf Greve"
>
> > Hi C.H. and Philippe,
> >
> >
> > Thanks for your aswers!
> > It looks like when shooting in JPEG WB balance setting is required for
> > each situation then... All clear.
> > One thing I'm wondering about, however, is the RAW format. I had never
> > looked into it and thought it would be just a lossless format, such as
> > TIFF, however, the remarks from the both of you suggest there are more
> > advantages, like not having to set the WB???
> > Can you (or anyone else) give a quick run-down on the format and its
> > advantages? I'm getting curious to this...:)
> >
> >
> > Thx and cheers!
> > Olafo
> >
> > On 30 Sep 2009, at 16:59, "C.H.Ling" <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> Olaf, if you don't like RAW then the only way is to set color temp.
> >> before
> >> shooting. For flash just use "Flash" or "Daylight" WB. For outdoor,
> >> bring a
> >> grey card, lock the white balance by using "One-touch white balance"
> >> at page
> >> 85 of E500 PDF manual.
> >>
> >> C.H.Ling
> >>
>
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