I posted this in the Nikon vs. G1 thread--but then realized it was unlikely to be answered there. So--here is the same post with some few changes.
I have a question that has been rattling around in my brain. A number of years ago I moved from an Oly E10, whose default color I really liked--to Canon (I had been a film Canon shooter and had the original Canon G1)--the D60 and D30. The Canon color sort of beat me over the head----Canon blues, reds not easy to deal with, etc. I've always shot in RAW and have moved around from RC to RC as new ones became available (some remember, like me, when there were hardly any other than the mfg. RCs)--but found C1 around my 10D time to deal the best with Canon reds in particular. I've never liked using Canon's DPP---and colors are much better with the current camera profiles derived from DPP in ACR and LR (I'm now pretty much a diehard LR user)--so its not as though they are 'bad'--but certainly different from the G1's.
I've been finding my G1 colors to be very nice generally (in LR--I haven't tried Silkypix but once--enough)--with both my MF lenses and the Panny and Oly lenses. They seem closer to what I remember with my one Olympus camera, the old fixed DSLR. So--not really remembering and not having paid a lot of attention to the consortium (?) between Oly and Panasonic, did that result in Panasonic's colors being closer to Olympus's or do they both have very 'signature' color palettes?
I hope I've been reasonably clear as to what I'm questioning. Its not important, but having shot with both the 5D and the G1 this past week side by side, some of the same shots actually--though I find the 5D's color, tonality and contrast (with the 24-70L mostly) pleasing for the most part and using the 'neutral' camera profile in LR--I still found the G1's more correct--and actually easier to deal with.
Diane
I have a question that has been rattling around in my brain. A number of years ago I moved from an Oly E10, whose default color I really liked--to Canon (I had been a film Canon shooter and had the original Canon G1)--the D60 and D30. The Canon color sort of beat me over the head----Canon blues, reds not easy to deal with, etc. I've always shot in RAW and have moved around from RC to RC as new ones became available (some remember, like me, when there were hardly any other than the mfg. RCs)--but found C1 around my 10D time to deal the best with Canon reds in particular. I've never liked using Canon's DPP---and colors are much better with the current camera profiles derived from DPP in ACR and LR (I'm now pretty much a diehard LR user)--so its not as though they are 'bad'--but certainly different from the G1's.
I've been finding my G1 colors to be very nice generally (in LR--I haven't tried Silkypix but once--enough)--with both my MF lenses and the Panny and Oly lenses. They seem closer to what I remember with my one Olympus camera, the old fixed DSLR. So--not really remembering and not having paid a lot of attention to the consortium (?) between Oly and Panasonic, did that result in Panasonic's colors being closer to Olympus's or do they both have very 'signature' color palettes?
I hope I've been reasonably clear as to what I'm questioning. Its not important, but having shot with both the 5D and the G1 this past week side by side, some of the same shots actually--though I find the 5D's color, tonality and contrast (with the 24-70L mostly) pleasing for the most part and using the 'neutral' camera profile in LR--I still found the G1's more correct--and actually easier to deal with.
Diane