OLYMPUS VIEWER 3 ROOT DIRECTORY MANUAL
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Indoors, under normal incandescent lighting, color balance was much too warm and orange with the default Auto white balance setting. About average exposure compensation required.

OLYMPUS VIEWER 3 ROOT DIRECTORY MANUAL

See thumbnails of all test and gallery imagesĭefault Auto white balance was quite warm, but good color balance with Incandescent and Manual white balance settings. See full set of test images with explanations The only significant hue shift is cyan towards blue, which is quite common and deliberate to improve the look of blue skies. The Olympus E-M1 II exhibits very good overall hue accuracy, with a better-than-average Delta-C color error after correction for saturation of only 3.73 at base ISO (the average is about five among cameras we've tested, and lower scores are better), and hue accuracy is quite good across the ISO sensitivity range.

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Where oversaturation is most problematic is on Caucasian skin tones, as it's very easy for these 'memory colors' to be seen as too bright, too pink, too yellow, etc. The Olympus E-M1 II did very well with skin tones, producing pleasant, realistic-looking Caucasian skin tones using Auto or Manual white balance that are just slightly on the warm side. This is simply because most people like their color a bit brighter than life. Most consumer digital cameras produce color that's more highly saturated (more intense) than what's found in the original subjects. Mean saturation remains fairly stable across the ISO range, except at very high ISOs where it falls to a low of 105.6% at ISO 25,600 (likely in an attempt to help control chroma noise). Default mean saturation at base ISO of 200 is 111.1% (11.1% oversaturated), which is about average these days. The Olympus E-M1 II pushes darker reds and blues by a fair amount and a few other colors by relatively small amounts, but most colors are pretty close to accurate in terms of saturation. Mouse over the links to compare ISOs and click for a larger version.

Thus, hue-accurate, highly saturated colors appear as lines radiating from the center. Hue changes as you travel around the center.

More saturated colors are located toward the periphery of the graph. In the diagram above, the squares show the original color, and the circles show the color that the camera captured.

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