E-PM2 Settings for good out of camera JPEGs

Sudo Nimh wrote:

jkrumm wrote:

People have found over the years that it pays to shoot jpegs with settings on the conservative side. You can easily adjust them to taste in basic programs like Picasa. So try setting sharpening to -1 or -2, noise reduction to off or low, and contrast to -1 or -2.

Right, but those settings are most useful if you plan to do post-processing. For good jpegs out of camera, I leave sharpening and contrast at default levels. I do leave noise reduction at Low, for more sharpness.

Thanks.

When shooting people, I like the Portrait scene mode because it does a good job with skin (reducing contrast and warming colors) and switches automatically to autofocus on faces.

For general shooting, I use P mode with the Super Control Panel enabled for quick adjustments. In P mode, I have the white balance on auto but Keep Warm is turned off. I have face detection turned off in P mode, and the focus set to the center of the frame so I can choose my focal point and then reframe, instead of risking a wrong guess by the camera.

Can you have center focus setup just for P mode, or will that setting automatically apply to all modes (PASM)?

iAuto generally makes the colors unrealistically vivid, but it can be good for nature shots.

I always shoot jpeg+raw so I have the option to post-process. I like having a jpeg available right away, but I usually want to tweak a shot in post before I send it to anyone.