This was great Matti, thanks for your valuable insights. As one who is dipping a toe into digital photography it’s super. I’ve been shooting film, both b&w and colour since I was a teenager in the 60s and then ‘going phone camera’ for the last twenty+ years, it’s a joy to be taking ‘real’ photos again. Lots to learn though but photography is still a wonderful thing!✌️🌻
Thank you. Some interesting pointers even though I set up the camera to do most of what you do in post and shoot raw+jpeg, there are still occasions to correct the photo. I also store by date - camera, year, quarter of year, date. Subdividing the year into quarters makes it easier for me to find photos again. Whilst there are some reasons for keeping raw forever, I find that if I have not reused them after 2 years, I am not going to. So to save disk space I delete the old raw. This can be done by a search for the type with an "older than" advanced search parameter. Check these are the right files, select them and delete.
Matti, I hope you have time next month for another review as DxO releases a new version of Photolab. A number of reviews have strongly recommended Photolab for MFT plus I would be curious of your thoughts on DxO's lens & camera profiles compared to LR. Thanks
Yes, Photolab is very good at cleaning up a photo when it needs cleaning up. It does have its own profiles, for every camera plus lens combination. And it is a combination, not one for the camera and then one for the lens. So it can miss the plot with an adapted lens. And the profiles are not the same as the camera itself uses. So if you were expecting the same look, you have some work to do. And the same can be said of other editors, they do not reproduce the look the camera made. Ten years and more ago the raw had to be processed to get a decent photo, but cameras have got a lot better since. If the editors would just reproduce the jpeg from the raw and then retouch them, straighten, enhance, and so on, that would be nice, Example - I've got a good jpeg, I process its raw, it enhanced the subject but lost the clouds, wiped out their contrast and definition. Why? I liked the subtle look of the subject, and the clouds. And I could not find settings to put the raw back to the jpeg. Workaround - straighten and crop the jpeg.
