![]() ![]() I do wished it had a better noise removal plugin.maybe the newer version does, since I'm still running the old one.Olympus Viewer 3 (OV3), the digital image editing and management software from Olympus, is the basic software suite you can use to import images and movies taken with your digital cameras to view, edit, and manage them. It has some faults yes, but I like the non destructive aspect without the cataloging that Lightroom does (or at least having the choice not to), and Aftershot Pro, is probably the fastest converter I've tried for my clunky old PC's. I agree that Aftershot (in conjunction with Paintshop Pro) is under rated. One word of warning with Olympus Viewer 3.check your color management setting, I work on a color manage system, however Viewer 3 did not automatically recognize that on install and it had to be repointed to the correct profile. My second choice.probably Coral AftershotPro & Paintshop Pro (under rated actually in my mind). So, I like using Olympus Viewer as a *.jpg viewer, but beyond that I download, manage and edit in Lightroom v6.standalone.not creative cloud.never ! moving people into a beach shot when they aren't there to begin with). didn't really love Lightroom, but had been using it with Nikon for times Capture NX-2 couldn't do what I needed.Īfter trying a bunch of trials of the newest versions around.I just sorted out my workflow literally in the last few days.what I've concluded Īs a viewer Olympus Viewer 3 is fine.better than most.and I used it in the interim for download management and *tif conversion since my older Lightroom v4 didn't read the newer Oly *.orf.but its not a solution for editing at all.Īlthough I hate being forced to use the catalog system.Lightroom v6.is the most flexible and robust RAW tool I have used and you can probably accomplish 99% of what you need to do without another editor, unless you want to get into what I would call more graphic arts stuff (i.e. I also fiddled with allot of other software from DxOMark, ACDSee, Silkypix. I recently moved to a basic Oly m4/3rd setup after a number of years with a Nikon system and workflow built primarily around Capture NX-2, (which like your Aperture got dropped). Give it a go and see what you think, I find after staring at the monitor for ages I go colour blind! This is fine for my normal web uploads, phones tablets etc though, general viewing.Ĭomparing the two, Lightroom seems to like to add a little more magenta to raw files, but flicking between the two you can play with the calibration settings to get it closer. I'm also working on a monitor not properly calibrated as its my laptop and I'm working abroad currently, so it's using a Windows generated sRGB ICC profile (which is used after exports are created). I like leaving these and comparing at 1:1 between Lightroom and viewer for seeing detail. Then everything else is untouched, sharpening is set at default 50, radius 1.0, detail 100 masking 0, no noise reduction. Maybe the tint could do with changing though. I shoot a lot on cloudy white balance I will add, as it seems to bring out colours a little more with my e-m5ii, which viewer reads as 6000k and Lightroom reads at 5950, with a tint of +26. So I'm still working on it, but so far I have this:Ĭamera calibration: 2012 current, Adobe standard ![]() If you could explain what settings you made in Lightroom to do this I would be grateful! Now with Lightroom you can replicate these settings so it shows a similar result when you first open up Lightroom. Olympus OM-D E-M5mkII + M.Zuiko 14-150mmII I taught myself how to deal with RAW with viewer, then I jumped on Lightroom! You get graduated adjustments, loads of colour control, and 3 ways to sharpen your images from start to end. With Lightroom, you get local adjustments including noise and sharpening. These are just my observations, and given that Oly Viewer is free with an Oly camera, there's no harm in using it. Also, if the image doesn't need much correction or recovery, I've found that sometimes exporting from Olympus Viewer as a TIFF, and then do retouching in Lightroom, after which you can fine tune your sharpening, you can sometimes draw out extra detail in images. Also, it seems to deal with low levels of noise really well if you keep the noise filter setting to a minimum. Viewer is fantastic if you don't need to recover any highlights or shadows, it can draw a great amount of detail out of Oly raw files, plus white balance for meĪt least has been bang on. ![]()
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