----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Zendel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 11:35 PM Subject: Re: EOS WB Preset colour temps
Malcolm, >From the 1Ds MkII manual p.48 (would imagine the same or very similar for all models): Auto: 3000-7000 Daylight: 5200 Shade: 7000 Cloudy: 6000 Tungsten: 3200 White Fluorescent: 4000 Flash: 6000 Custom : 2000-10000 all approx, degrees K Why you ask? CraigZ ------------------------------------------------ Craig, Many thanks, and sorry about wasting your time - I'd completely forgotten that the info was in the manual(s) for my 10D and 5D. I'm reviewing macro images of flowers taken in the very deep and narrow Sottoguda Gorge, high in the Dolomites, where sunlight was largely not present, and the weather was varying from dry and bright to mist and drizzle. I used AWB for some, and tried Shade (which seemed sort of logical) for some others. The "Shade" setting seemed fine when viewed on the 5D's LCD screen, but back home the AWB setting looks truer, but not quite right. From the above, Cloudy would probably have been better, and with the °K info I can try out how "The Imaging Factory" Whitebalance filter alters things. (I could have shot in RAW, and did for some shots, but there were rather a large number of alpine flowers to capture, and the 5D's RAW files soon eat up memory. My image tank was back at the hotel.) On a later flower outing, where I started to run into similar problems, I used my Expodisc and Custom White Balance, with super results. Thanks Malcolm Milton Keynes, UK http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
