Ario Arioldi
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Quite an interesting site with really a lot of useful information:
Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera [Gary Ayton's photography wiki]
Olympus OM-D E-M5 camera [Gary Ayton's photography wiki]
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There are some examples of different configurations on the web, for instance Pekka Potka's configuration, which makes a lot of sense for me :Very nice. Thanks for the link.
I would love to see the button assignments and settings of people who have settled on an efficient workflow. I understand that will be different for different uses, and perhaps passage through the purgatory of working out one's own is a necessary journey. But I'm still curious (and lazy).
-Matt
Yep, totally awesome! :thumbs:AnnnaT, that was very helpful. I copied and saved in a note app for future reference when I get an EM5.
Diane
Noise Reduction turns on the low-light, is done by subtracting a "dark frame" from a taken picture . Even if it is set to On, it will be actually activated only at longest exposure times, generally from two seconds up. This means that you can leave it on all the time and when activated you will easily see that the recording time is doubled.Seems like even though I have the camera set noise reduct. auto and noise filter Off that the camera still applies a noise filter to the images...
1. Should I turn Noise reduct to OFF?
2. Should I turn Noise filter to LOW?
I'm thinking Oly has some filter applied to the Raw files no matter what settings the camera has.
thanks
Compare camera JPEGs with NF=Off with camera RAWs converted with Adobe Lightroom and both noise reduction sliders set to 0 and there's a huge difference. It's particularly noticeable in dark areas. NF=Off hasn't actually disabled noise reduction in JPEGs since at least the E-PL2.For the Noise Filter settings there are four values: Off, Low, Standard, and High. The first one, according to Olympus official statement, entirely disables the filtering even when recording jpegs.
Is difficult to prove that something does not exist, but I personally have not seen any evidence that the Olympus statement is not true.
As I said before what the raw conversion engines do in the background is not very well documented, and this is true also for the internal raw processing engines. Any sort of filtering applied during demosaicing to control artifacts may well also act partially as a noise remover in particular for the chroma noise.Compare camera JPEGs with NF=Off with camera RAWs converted with Adobe Lightroom and both noise reduction sliders set to 0 and there's a huge difference. It's particularly noticeable in dark areas. NF=Off hasn't actually disabled noise reduction in JPEGs since at least the E-PL2.
DH