White balance and colour
On the whole, the white balance and colours produced by the E-P2 are very good. My only concern is that when set to daylight white balance, skies are slightly cyan. Obviously, this can be easily corrected when capturing images as raw files.
There are a few new colour features included in the E-P2. The most useful one is i-Enhance. This intelligent image-adjustment feature automatically alters the contrast and saturation of an image. It can be selected in the image settings menu, along with the standard Natural, Vivid, Muted, Portrait, Monotone and custom styles. However, i-Enhance is also the default colour style when in the i-Auto exposure mode.
The E-P2 has the full complement of Olympus Art Filters, including Grainy Film mode. It also has two new Art Filters in the form of the Diorama filter, which replicates the effect of using a tilt-and-shift lens, and the Cross Process filter, which does a good job of mimicking cross-processed film and some interesting colour effects can also be achieved by changing the white balance settings.
For those who want great-looking JPEG files straight from the camera, the E-P2 has plenty of in-camera colour and enhancement options. Of course, those shooting raw images still have the freedom to shoot JPEG and raw files and edit the raw files in post-capture editing software.
