OLYMPUS VIEWER 3 VS LIGHTROOM MANUAL
OLYMPUS VIEWER 3 VS LIGHTROOM SOFTWARE

The colours in the Lightroom image are in comparison, dull, and the noise is far more noticeable.Īs I’ve been using Lightroom for a long time with images from a Sony camera, I’m used to the software, and I would of course prefer to stay with it, so the next step was to try and see what I could do within Lightroom to be able to get closer to the Capture One image, with the intention of applying these on import. I feel that the image from Capture One has more vibrant colours, the fine details of the petals, and the water droplets on the petals are clearer, and the bokeh is smoother.

OLYMPUS VIEWER 3 VS LIGHTROOM MANUAL

The same file was imported into Lightroom and Capture One, and then exported as a jpeg without making any manual adjustments in either software. This first image is a comparison of a jpeg export. I’ve used this image as it’s simple, has clean, crisp, clear colours without too many fine details to distract from the sharpness of the image elements. As I feel that Capture One has the best results, the comparisons are all with Lightroom and Capture One. So this post is to show a few comparison images taken from a 100% crop of the title image. I feel that the quality of the import in Capture One is the one that suits me best.

After a few tests, it was quite clear which one was better, but I carried on and tested with different images, as well as images taken with various lenses, just to be sure. I wanted to compare the import of each of them.

OLYMPUS VIEWER 3 VS LIGHTROOM SOFTWARE

I decided to try some other software for comparison, including Affinity Photo, OV3, and Capture One. It turns out that native RAW conversion for Olympus images in Lightroom isn’t quite what it could be. This comment triggered a thought about RAW conversion. Well the worry is over, thanks to a friend who commented on the brightness of an image. Although every other aspect of the camera is great, I was starting to doubt whether the speed, portability and weather proofing were worth the loss of sharpness in the image. I felt there was a touch too much noise, adding an ever so slight but very annoying blur to the images. I’ve had some concerns about the sharpness of the images from the Olympus. If anyone has any more tips of hints on getting the best out of Olympus. I figured the ORF>TIFF step would also be of interest to Lightroom users so I'd share it. I'm aware that there are more bits in a TIFF than a JPG so it seems sensible that it's a better place to begin when editing. I've just had a play with OV3, exporting to TIFF with neutral settings, then loading in GIMP editing and exporting as JPG and it does seem to give you more to play with.Īs a two step for processing an image it's not too painful and I could even batch process TIFFs from OV3 to play with later. Then I came across this video which relates to earlier versions of Olympus Viewer 2 and Lightroom 4 and shows how much more detail OV2 could extract from the same ORF file. Googling Olympus Viewer doesn't give a lot of help, mostly people suggesting that you abandon it and use Adobe Lightroom I've tried editing the ORF files from my E-M10 and E-PL5 in Olympus Viewer 3 and struggled - partly because the interface is complicated, the help is pretty minimal and also because it's s o s l o w. I've fairly recently moved to shooting JPG+RAW having previously shot JPG (no editing) then JPG with some post processing in GIMP.

Olympus viewer 3 vs lightroom