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Is this what should be expected on any camera noise wise?

Started May 15, 2019 | Discussions thread
Marco Nero
Marco Nero Veteran Member • Posts: 7,582
Re: one more thing ...
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One more thing, if you do end up shooting with JPEG, be sure to set your camera up with a User Defined Setting.  For some reason many of the newer EOS M cameras seem to ship with a very neutral or muted JPEG setting where your images may look similar to unprocessed RAW shots at first.  You need to change the JPEG Picture Style before you start shooting JPEG.   Quite a few of us are using "Fine Detail" for our JPEG image processing preference. You can find more than a few threads on this on the forum. I found that the M6 gave me a very slight blue hue to my images and this was easily corrected with a single click to the right on the Color Tone (which cancelled out the cyan slightly).  I'll copy-paste a recent post I did that describes the settings quite a few of us are using now on our EOS M cameras...  Feel free to use a different setting.
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USER DEFINED settings as found in the EOS M6 Manual.

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Setting up the camera:
For shooting with any of the newer EOS M cameras, you need to select a User Defined PICTURE STYLE setting as a template and then adjust it to your own preference. I selected FINE DETAIL and this applies a respectable amount of color saturation, sharpening and contrast to the images. I then altered the setting slightly by moving the Color Tone slider one click to the right. This applies a little more warmth to the otherwise cool (cyan) looking images. Note that Sharpness Strength is normally 4 by default (I think) so I've only pushed it one notch to get to 4. Even 0 has some degree of contrast automatically applied.
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User Defined Template (Picture Style) = FINE DETAIL.
Sharpness Strength = 4
Sharpness Fineness = 1
Sharpness Threshold = 1
Contrast = 0
Saturation = 1
Color Tone = 1

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