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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