Everyone has a preference for image output, that goes way back to the days of film, so what's one person's cheese, is another's rotten milk.
I own a Panasonic LX2 and have really liked it's image quality (JPG), but not the way it delivers RAW files (why, oh why, does it have to apply noise reduction to everything, including RAW?). :thumbdown:
So as you may have guessed, I'm a RAW shooter (even when I shoot sports for my newspaper) and, to that end, all I want are unadulterated RAW files. I don't care at all what the engineers factored into their JPG algorithms, I simply don't shoot JPG, at all (except with the LX2). I prefer to manipulate the final image outcome, just as I did in the darkroom days, but now I don't have to suffer the effects of photochemicals anymore. :thumbup:
Panasonic have upped the ante and it's now time for Olympus to respond.
Cheers
Ray