Help! Olympus E-PM2 skin tones versus Nikon D7000

Alex Notpro wrote:

The skin tones on the E-PM2 come out very different from the Nikon D7000 by default. See comparison below. Some reviewers seem to find the warmer/redder Olympus tones more lively, but it must be a matter of preference, as I find them a bit unflattering (giving some subjects a gritty/angry look... probably great for street photography, not so much for family photos). I'm able to correct the tones on the computer but does anybody know some quick settings to have them come out the same as the D7000 straight out of camera? The D7K tones are more natural, when compared to the subject next to the computer monitor.

Here's one representative sample comparison. Trust me, I did several, but I'm not going to post them all:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atramos/8247423184/in/photostream/lightbox/

I assume you are showing us "out-of-camera-jpegs" here.  Nikon and Olympus profiling is different.  Mixing files from Nikon and Olympus is like mixing Kodak and Fuji slides in the olden film days.  You don't get a homogenous colour representation.

You might have a chance to overcome (or improve on) the issue by shooting RAW and using the same RAW converter for both cameras.  Then you get Adobe, Apple, ... profiling for both cameras.  It now depends how much they try to mimic the original profiling or just do their own thing - get a trial of a few RAW converters and see what you get. With modern products such as Apple's iPhoto and Aperture shooting RAW is not really more difficult as shooting JPEG.  For many photos you don't have to do very much - only if you need to rescue mistakes or want more than JPEG can give you, you need to work.  I am not a LR user, so no comment here from me on this, but I assume this is also easy.  I have used PSE6 and 9 in the past and that is not as easy.

I addition it looks to me, that on the Nikon shoot the white-balance might be troubled?  A green cast is a common reaction of a DSLR when being faces with a redish-pinkish target such as the baby skin.  If that happens you can fix in the RAW converter easily.  With JPEG you are doomed.

Hope that helps.