Manually replicate Pen F's Monochrome Mode to OM-D's Myset

[twenty200]

Maybe I'm misunderstanding what's being said here, but all three of the Monochrome profiles are fully customizable. I can adjust them so they have identical settings (filter, tone curve, etc.)

YES! I wish more people understood what you just said.

Too many people seem to think the three monochrome profiles are set in stone. They're not. All three are the same basic mono profile with the same settings options, just tweaked differently. Flick the lever and you'll see that for yourself.

The built in profiles are just Olympus giving people ideas for what they can do with those profiles. Instead of leaving them all set flat, they gave three different variations of the settings as examples. They all use the same options, just with different settings. They're easy to change & easy to change back.

I love how quick and easy the settings are to change while shooting. That's THE feature the Pen F has that even the EM1 doesn't. You don't have to go into menus to change the monochrome color filter. Just flick the lever & do it live in the viewfinder to see which looks best for the shot you're setting up. And you don't have to settle for filter On/Off. Instead of Red Filter On, which is what other Oly bodies do, with the Pen F you can choose from more colors to filter and you can set the strength of the filter... and you do it live, in the viewfinder with the flick of a lever. No menus to surf through. Flick the lever, spin the dials. It's so quick and easy, yet powerful.

Shooting this, for example, was easy. I liked the lines in the building & I wanted to black out the sky. Flick the lever, choose red & boost it. I saw all the changes live in the viewfinder, so I could tinker with the levels until I got what I wanted (which took less than 2 seconds. Seriously).



I'm not saying that's a great shot, BTW. I'm just using it as an example of changing the settings in the mono profiles quickly.

Flick the lever.
The front dial chooses which color to filter.
The rear dial sets the strength for the filter.
EASY!

I love shooting with my Pen F.

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[twenty200]

Apologies for (slightly?) highjacking a non-PEN-F thread.

No apologies needed. More people talk about tweaking the monochrome settings on M43 cameras the better.

Absolutely!

I tried starting a Pen F color profiles thread a while ago, but it went nowhere, and that's a shame since the color profiles are really powerful too. But most people seem to stick to the profiles as they came instead of tweaking them. To me, that's like shooting in auto. Why limit oneself to factory presets?

 

[PentaxNick]

Apologies for (slightly?) highjacking a non-PEN-F thread.

No apologies needed. More people talk about tweaking the monochrome settings on M43 cameras the better.

Absolutely!

I tried starting a Pen F color profiles thread a while ago, but it went nowhere, and that's a shame since the color profiles are really powerful too. But most people seem to stick to the profiles as they came instead of tweaking them. To me, that's like shooting in auto. Why limit oneself to factory presets?

I set a colour profile wth an emphasis on the blues and de-emphasising the reds during a trip to Venice. I was really pleased with the results.

one thing I find needs improving is that, although you can assign a colour profile to a custom setting on the mode dial, you also need to set the creative dial to Color to activate it, rather than it being a part of the mode.

 

[twenty200]

one thing I find needs improving is that, although you can assign a colour profile to a custom setting on the mode dial, you also need to set the creative dial to Color to activate it, rather than it being a part of the mode.

That's because C1/C2/C3 on the mode dial also save the other Creative Dial settings you currently have set up.

In other words, let's say you're shooting in Color 1 on the Creative Dial. You love the look, so you decide to save it as C1.

When you save it to C1, you also save your current Color 2, Color 3, Mono 1, Mono 2, Mono 3, plus your current Color Creator setup, and you save whatever you have set to when the Creative Dial is off. C1 saves all of that.

 

[Fuchalmania]

That's because C1/C2/C3 on the mode dial also save the other Creative Dial settings you currently have set up.

In other words, let's say you're shooting in Color 1 on the Creative Dial. You love the look, so you decide to save it as C1.

When you save it to C1, you also save your current Color 2, Color 3, Mono 1, Mono 2, Mono 3, plus your current Color Creator setup, and you save whatever you have set to when the Creative Dial is off. C1 saves all of that.

That sounds great.

I recently bought a GX85 as a smaller body M43 for street photography, with an emphasis on monochrome.

The one thing which made me chose it over the Pen F was the tilt screen. I'm 2m tall, and I don't want an articulating screen for when I shoot from the waist (which is a lot for my street photography). Had the Pen F come with tilt screen rather than articulating screen, I'd have saved up my money and jumped on that.

But keep the recommended monochrome talk coming for any camera. Even if I can't get them as good as Pen F, I'll still improve my EM1.2/GX85 by learning from you guys/gals.

 

[PentaxNick]

one thing I find needs improving is that, although you can assign a colour profile to a custom setting on the mode dial, you also need to set the creative dial to Color to activate it, rather than it being a part of the mode.

That's because C1/C2/C3 on the mode dial also save the other Creative Dial settings you currently have set up.

In other words, let's say you're shooting in Color 1 on the Creative Dial. You love the look, so you decide to save it as C1.

When you save it to C1, you also save your current Color 2, Color 3, Mono 1, Mono 2, Mono 3, plus your current Color Creator setup, and you save whatever you have set to when the Creative Dial is off. C1 saves all of that.

That makes sense and could be really useful if I had the memory of an elephant and could remember the combination of settings I’d assigned to each Custom setup!

 

[twenty200]

one thing I find needs improving is that, although you can assign a colour profile to a custom setting on the mode dial, you also need to set the creative dial to Color to activate it, rather than it being a part of the mode.

That's because C1/C2/C3 on the mode dial also save the other Creative Dial settings you currently have set up.

In other words, let's say you're shooting in Color 1 on the Creative Dial. You love the look, so you decide to save it as C1.

When you save it to C1, you also save your current Color 2, Color 3, Mono 1, Mono 2, Mono 3, plus your current Color Creator setup, and you save whatever you have set to when the Creative Dial is off. C1 saves all of that.

That makes sense and could be really useful if I had the memory of an elephant and could remember the combination of settings I’d assigned to each Custom setup!

OH. MY. GOD. YES.

I wish Olympus would give us the ability to name presets so that, instead of seeing Mono 1/2/3, Color 1/2/3, etc, I would see a label I made that would be more helpful for jogging my memory about how I set up that profile.

I love Olympus cameras, but their software and firmware needs work. That's true for just about every camera maker though.