Question
I have an Olympus E-PL2 and am taking photos in raw. I have the codec downloaded from Olympus, so I can view the photo with Picasa in Windows, and it looks fine but a few seconds after loading the image, it goes and does something in which it looks like it desaturates the whole photo. What is going on? I know there are many posts asking 'what is a good raw viewer' but I'm looking more for a solution for Picasa if possible since I use it for all my photo management.
Answer
Sorry but you are confused. Picasa first shows you the JPEG preview that is embedded in RAW files.
It then loads the RAW data and lets it be converted by the codec. What you see then is the RAW file with default convertion.
In order to get something good from a RAW file, you have to work at it. IIRC there are questions here regarding matching the JPEG conversion and about why RAW files do not look so good by default.
Check more discussion of this question.
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