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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