What Olympus Viewer has going for it is that Olympus know what the "secret sauce" of their naturall/muted/portrait/vivid/dramatic and other modes are and Olympus Viewer is therefore the only RAW converter that lets you get exactly what each of those modes would give you as an out of camera JPEG, at least without you having to put in a fair amount of work trying to duplicate the out of camera JPEG result. But I really like its basic RAW conversion. OV3 is slow (very slow on some computers), rather clunky, has bugs, and does not offer the most advanced processing algorithms. Then I do additional processing with other programs that have more advanced sharpening and local-contrast algorithms, such as Image Analyzer and RawTherapee. I start RAW processing with OV3 to obtain the color accuracy and lower noise. I have tried several times to identify a sharpness hit from this hidden noise reduction, but so far I haven't been able to spot any. I think the program is doing some things it's not telling us about. When I compare OV3 and RawTherapee on noisy images, OV3 always yields markedly lower noise, especially color blotching, even when I have disabled all processing in OV3. I do believe colors from OV3 RAW and camera-generated JPG are the same, however. I started to list them, but there were too many. Olympus Viewer 3 provides many options and adjustments not available in the control screens of my E-PL2.
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