Just something to share with you guys.
I personally find X10 to be best in quality with the following settings.
- JPEG 12M, some will stick to 6MP DR400% at ISO100, for me 6MP is abit tight for cropping.
- Provia
- Sharpness Hard
- Color High
- Highlight Mid
- Shadow Mid
- NR Low
- Auto ISO400. Depends on what you shoot, if going to shoot high detailed stuff like feathers, stick to 100, anything above 400 will lose alot of details.
- DR AUTO
- WB Shift Nil
- Exp comp -1/3
The OOC jpeg is usually crisp and good, but usually I will do some cropping, denoise, adjustment of brightness, add framing etc. In terms of colors, there is very minor adjustment required.
There is also a color shift on the red channel if you noticed, some like it but I find it nuisance when the red will turn to pink. This can be easily corrected by Lightroom by the following settings.
RED channel luminance -50
Orange luminance -20
Purple luminance -50
Magenta luminance -50
Yellow saturation +20
Have fun with the X10, I had mine! It has the best jpeg output compared to so many compacts even 500D I ever owned before.
It's a great camera but I realised I'm a raw person and I traded mine for the bokeh and creamier colour depth.
Cheers!