You Can Now Obtain and Use Different Photographer’s Customized OM-3 Recipes

When OM System introduced the OM-3 in February, it did so with a renewed concentrate on customized image profiles. Nearly eight months later, OM System has launched an OM-3 Recipes hub, the place photographers can obtain customized recipes made by their fellow photographers.

So far, there are six featured recipes, developed by photographers Jerred Z, Kyler Steele, Ali O’Keefe, Kitty Marie, Paul Clark, and Jonathan Paragas. The featured recipes provide shade and black-and-white picture profiles, starting from delicate and delicate to punchy and dramatic.

For instance, Kyler Steele’s recipe, “Nostalgic Summer,” is a vintage-inspired recipe “that focuses on vibrant greens and golden yellows while stripping away blues for a more timeless look.” In distinction, Kitty Marie’s “Red Soda Pop” recipe warms up the general picture, intensifies reds, and softens yellows and greens.

OM-3 homeowners can submit their own recipes for consideration by means of a kind on OM System’s OM-3 Recipes web page. Photographers share their title, e mail tackle, Instagram account (if relevant), recipe title, and a short description of their recipe. They then add a .JPG file straight from the OM-3 that was shot utilizing their customized recipe.

The new webpage additionally options photos that photographers have captured utilizing OM-3 Recipes, they usually’re placing.

Installing new recipes to the OM-3 is just not fairly as simple because it could possibly be. Rather than make the most of the OI.Share cell app, putting in downloaded recipes requires hooking the OM-3 as much as a pc and opening the OM Workspace app. With the OM-3 set into MTP mode, photographers click on Camera from OM Workspace’s high bar, click on “Load Color/Monochrome Profile,” after which drag JPEG photos with customized recipes into the OM Workspace pop-up window. The app will show the exact settings for every recipe, and photographers can load their favorites onto C-setting positions. An entire set up video is available on OM’s Creative Recipes page.

This convoluted set up course of, which can absolutely forestall some photographers from using different individuals’s recipes, makes about as a lot sense as OM System locking its cinema profiles to its bad-looking 8-bit video recordsdata on latest cameras, just like the OM-3.

This C-setting place corresponds to the OM-3’s high mode dial, which has C1-C5 customized mode positions to which customers can assign customized recipes. The digital camera additionally encompasses a entrance Color Profile management dial, much like the one launched by the beloved PEN-F practically a decade in the past. The Color Profile management dial consists of Color, Mono, CRT, and ART settings, in addition to a spot the place customers can scroll by means of normal and customized profiles.

Photographers have been capable of experiment with their very own customized recipes for the reason that OM-3 launched in February, however with the brand new devoted Creative Recipes web site, it’s simpler than ever to obtain different individuals’s creations.

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