I have an Olympic E-P2 camera. Using different lens I still have the same problem with colour not matching what I see in real life. Example, a two tone purple flower (Morning Glory) is registered on the LCD and end photo as a blue flower. I tried white balancing and various other means to change the colour to reflect what is actual but without any success. Anybody have ideas what I am doing wrong and how to correct this?

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Hi JJH, I've moved this thread in to the Olympus forum because "Help and Feedback" is in regard to the site itself, not cameras or photos. Depending upon what happens next you might consider posting the two images in the Image Works forum which is only open to Members.

Let's start with are you using RAW or JPEG and what software are you using to process your photographs? If you are using JPEG there are in camera settings that can be having impact on how they show up..such as Vivid, Natural, sharpening, etc.

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Unfortunately, I have had the same problem. I've tried to capture the purple of one flower that I found multiple times, but the E-pl1 doesn't seem to render it correctly. I tried adjusting white balance and the color modes as well, and it still didn't seem to do the trick. I've always liked Oly colors but it just doesn't seem to like purple.

Hi, slackmachine - somethings got to be going wrong for you, too. I have taken plenty of flowers this summer with my E-PL1 and the colors always looked really good and quite accurate. Here's one example:


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I'm finding that the Blue in skies is often wrong. I set colours to natural, but I get this weird Blue. That said, It's early days and this is no big deal since it can be rectified in PS.

The EP2 is a gem. I can see why people have taken to this camera so readilly. I only have the 14-42 for it so far. But, at the moment this is ample for my needs. I've some might shooting planned soon, capturing what are vivid LED lights on bridges, and their reflections on a river. This will be the Litmus test for me with the EP2.

I'm stunned by the results that 1600 ISO give me in relation to noise correction with the EP2. In the past I got awesome images at night which were blighted slightly by noise in the night sky. I'm pretty confident that the EP2 will improve on past images, which struggled at 200 ISO.

Apologies if this post wanders about a bit.

Dave.

I've had this problem with just about any camera I've ever owned. Some either make the purple too red or some make the purple too blue. Usually I just try and change it in PP.

do you only have the problems with purple and maybe (magenta)

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One thing I have noticed is that with purples and reds that I don't think the LCD on the camera displays them as accurate as my home monitor. Maybe thats the way my monitor is calibrated.

that's one of the problems that I had early on last Feb, when I started with M43 - I was advised by this Forum to calibrate my monitor as a first step - so I bought a copy of Spyder2 pro, (a piece of hardware and some software), and I started from that base.

The more I read the more I find out that the major camera manufacturers have their own formula for processing, (which they will not share with anyone), so e.g when you are using Adobe LR or PS their (colour rendering?), software can be (is) different from, say, Canon or Nikon

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I think I found out that it's mostly just the white balance set a bit off. It really only happened to me a couple of times, because I don't usually take many macro shots. It's not that important to me though because I still get those amazing Olympus colors