Help! Olympus E-PM2 skin tones versus Nikon D7000

Daniel Lauring wrote:

Daniel Lauring wrote:

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).

IMHO, the Nikon is HORRIBLE...zombie looking. The Olympus might pop more than you are used to but it looks much nicer.

I'm eating crow a little bit. I just was trying some portrait shots comparing a bunch of cameras and under incandescent light and I could not get the Oly to not turn my face pink. I tried natural colors...muted colors...setting the white balance manually to incandescent. Actually, setting the white balance manually to incandescent and using muted colors was worse than just letting Oly do AWB. I need to play with the individual color channels next I guess. It surprises me because generally I really like the Oly white balance but it wasn't handling the small room set up with three bright incandescent bulbs well.

This was with an Olympus PM2, btw, coupled with the Pansonic 45mm F2.8 macro.

I don't think it's an AWB problem.

I got satisfactory results by just setting Saturation and Sharpness both to -2.

I did a bit of research into the Nikon "Portrait" picture mode and found that's essentially the same thing it does.

Not an "exact" match to the Nikon settings but close enough. I would need saturation about "-1.5" which is not an available setting on the camera.