White Balance and Colour
The E-5 delivers bright, punchy images as standard from its JPEGs. My only criticism is that they may be a little too punchy for some DSLR users. Raw files look slightly more natural and the colours can be tweaked to suit your preference.
I really liked the colours, though, and was actually drawn to make them even more punchy using some of the art filters. For more creative shots, I found the vivid and grainy film filters worked well at achieving something a little more interesting. The dramatic tone mode, although completely over the top for most uses, is a lot of fun to play around with.
The auto white balance system in the E-5 is very impressive thanks to the additional dedicated white balance sensor on the front of the camera. I rarely found the need to leave this mode as it delivered neutral tones both indoors and outdoors. Only when shooting sunsets did I get better results by switching to the cloudy preset. If anything, the results were on the cool side when faced with extreme contrast in the image.
Using the cloudy white balance preset allowed the image to maintain the nice warm tones of the sunset
