t3i color trouble

I am at wits end trying to find out how to achieve natural colors with my T3i with the kit 18-135mm lens when shooting landscapes. Here is a comparison of the same landscape shot with my new T3i vs my old, inexpensive Olympus SP800UZ:
http://i5.photobucket.​com …89/mastertech/c​ompare.jpg

The colors of the Olympus are natural and life like. The T3i's colors are not.

What can I do to make the T3i perform like my cheap Olympus color wise?

The current settings on the T3i are: P mode, Standard mode, 5,0,0,0, ISO 100, f10 -1/3 exposure compensation. Using Landscape mode makes the colors even more unnatural. Thanks for any suggestions.

you can go into your menu and do a custom settings in the same landscape/standard mode ( I think there is 3 custom settings you can create, there were in my xsi) where you can alter the saturation and tones to how you like them. You might also try changing your white balance to sunshine, as cloudy or indoors tends to be "warmer". Do you shoot in raw mode and have photoshop? if so, load the raw file into camera raw and adjust the white balance, saturation, color tone etc in camera raw.

white balance.

And if you don't want to think about WB and so on while shooting - shoot in raw and make all these adjustments at home with Canon DPP.
For me, the picture of the Olympus looks too cool...

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I agree with the PP, the Olympus image is too cold. Grass typically isn't GREEN like that. It has a yellow Green hue, which the Canon gets closer to.

Natural vs not so natural look is open to interpretation.

Everyone has their own likes and dislikes.

On Canon cameras, the "Faithful" style is probably what you want.

EDIT - I decided my instructions were too hard to follow, so from here is new.

To check the colours from your camera, you either need a colour-calibrated monitor or some way of producing prints whose colours you trust. I'll assume you'll take the print route, as if you had the monitor you'd almost certainly be using raw.

Gather some richly coloured objects like vases - not too over the top, as typical sRGB prints can't represent certain very intense reds, greens and yellows. Take a picture of them in a sunlit room, preferably in the middle of the day. Now make a print and hold it up against the objects in light similar to that you shot in. They should look the same

sorry but I disagree... the canon shot actually looks more natural to me... the other shot the colors look muted...

focus.pocus wrote in post #12675823
sorry but I disagree... the canon shot actually looks more natural to me... the other shot the colors look muted...

I agree the Olympus looks off on white balance. If you want an accurate white balance and want to shoot jpeg you need to use a gray card to set a custom white balance.

Sensor interpritation as well as camera set up. I would check the white balance first, and if it is a sunny day be sure to put it on the right balance.

I think it is the white balance, too much yellows making the greens not nice and natural

It's a conundrum... For me, "comparisons" like that always get me confused.

I just spent about two weeks putting up scanned Kodachrome slides from the 1980s up on my web site and got used to the look and color of those shots. Now, when I look at shots from my T2i, they look a little pale by comparison.

But if I think about it, the T2i captures the scenes more realistically and faithfully than Kodachrome did.

My opinion...

EDIT: I think the T3i shot looks better.

i too think the canon looks more natural.

but as others have said, its all in the white balance.

stevewf1 wrote in post #12676363
But if I think about it, the T2i captures the scenes more realistically and faithfully than Kodachrome did.

I always thought Kodachrome too magenta, especially for skin tones.

There are also additional styles available for download at Canon. They are to used with DPP or added as custom styles to your camera.