What are the 'olympus colours' and do you like 'em?

[speedandstyle]

There were several reasons why I went with Olympus over Panasonic and the Olympus JPEG engine being one of them. I went on what others were saying, that the colors were more saturated and life-like than the Panasonic's. I have to agree that the colors from the camera are very nice. Of coarse f you shoot RAW it doesn't matter but if you shoot JPEG then the Olympus colors are great!

 

[ghetto]

I often mess around with a RAW file in Lightroom until I really like it, only to find I like the JPEG better.

same here, i've never been able to reproduce the olympus colours coming from raw manually. i can get more detail or more dynamic range but i can't get the colours like olys engine.

I think i read some where that olympus might be applying multiple colour settings to different parts of the image which may explain why...

p.s. i personally find nikon colours much more pleasing and slighty warmer than oly's, but the camera form factor thing keeps me on oly.

 

[savvy]

same here, i've never been able to reproduce the olympus colours coming from raw manually. i can get more detail or more dynamic range but i can't get the colours like olys engine.

I think i read some where that olympus might be applying multiple colour settings to different parts of the image which may explain why...

p.s. i personally find nikon colours much more pleasing and slighty warmer than oly's, but the camera form factor thing keeps me on oly.

Give the Huelight colour profiles a try, I find they are a great starting point and fairly faithfully reproduce the "Oly Colours"

 

[PatrickVA]

I have the Huelight profile for the OM-D, and almost always use it for my starting point since I like the colors better than the default Adobe. I usually still like the Olympus JPEG better for color, saturation, noise, etc.

I need to watch more Lightroom tutorials. There are a lot of artist out there that can make a good RAW file exceptional.

 

[digitalandfilm]

I switched to the OM-D from the GX1 partly because of the JPEGs. There was something about GX1 skin tones that I could never fix.

Having owned both GH2 and various Olympus E-XXX and E-P2 I would agree 100%.

*However*- when I use the Huelights Profiles ( Huelight ACR & Lightroom Camera Profiles ) the GX1 becomes more "Olympus-Like" and saves time with Lightroom PP.