I've recently conducted some experiments to examine how my camera translates actual brightness values into the RGB numbers for digital representation. It's not linear. It's not what the sRGB standard defines. It's an odd curve that tends to expand the midtones. I don't know if Olympus did this on purpose, but of course I want to have my images in a color space with a known function relating numerical representation to actual intensity. So I've developed a curve-adjust preset in Paint Shop Pro which transforms my camera images into standard RGB. I may go back and re-process some of my old photos using this new curve.
Still unknown is whether my camera's RGB output relates to the correct sRGB primaries or not. I find that I often feel the need to apply a minor color boost to my photos, so I would guess not. In the interest of thoroughness, I suppose I should devise and carry out some experiments in order to develop a proper color transformation.
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