I conclude that the Olympus conversion uses a very mild contrast curve but with some extra “look” to it that I can figure out myself. This time it has slightly more contrast than the in-camera conversion but that’s not all. Lightroom desaturated, Contrast +20 with sharpening I used my own standard sharpening settings of: The second version is the first with the addition of increasing Contrast to +20 and adding some sharpening. It’s close to the in-camera version but slightly lacking in contrast. The next version is the raw file imported into Lightroom and then desaturated (Saturation slider set to -100). The first picture shows the file as converted by the camera: Olympus out-of-camera monotone rendering If you’re really interested, email me and I’ll send you full size versions. You may not see any difference (or a spurious difference) unless you’re using a well set-up monitor. WARNING – the differences between the different versions are quite subtle. So I’ve tried various simple conversions in Lightroom to see how they compare to the camera’s version. Additionally, I don’t get access to the camera’s nice conversion (did I say I liked it?) The problem is that Lightroom ignores the monochrome conversion done by the camera to the embedded preview in the raw file and just shows me the raw file in colour. If I were fool enough to use the Olympus raw conversion software that came with the camera (Olympus Viewer version 3) this would have the advantage of giving a workflow that’s in monochrome from start to end. I’d be quite happy to use it without further processing but being paranoid I generally shoot in raw format. I really like the monochrome conversion built into the camera. This is really nice, you can visualise exactly what you’ll get in black and white. If you select this preset (menu -> Shooting Menu 1 -> Picture Mode -> monotone ) then you get a monochrome view in the rear screen and the EVF. The Olympus OMD-EM10 (mark 1) has a built-in monochrome preset called “monotone”.
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