Last night I tried a more rigorous test of photographing with and without a cokin blue filter on my camera. I also tried with and without using custom white balance in the camera. The following collection are the best few shots of each of the permutations I tried: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/collections/72157625421911182/
My gut feeling is that the biggest difference is due to using in camera white balance. That it allows me to shoot with the colors more balanced without blowing out the red channel. I'm not sure how this works unless it tweaks the gain that goes into the raw file. Shooting with a blue filter, allowed me to set the custom white balance when I otherwise couldn't. It also meant using much slower shutter speeds, so there's a tradeoff there. However the final product is a result of skill level throughout the whole process, and my lightroom skills are fairly rudimentary, a more accurate test would be to have someone that knows post processing clean up the files. A more practical (except for the cost) solution would probably be to get a K-5 with its greater dynamic range, which would allow a lot more room for color correction without blowing out highlights. -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
