In his former life as a egzotic dancer Kenneth Waller wrote on 23.07.04 17:54:
> I've had my ist D for a few weeks & like using it. However, I don't think I'll > give up shooting slides any time soon. > I've pretty much kept things simple by going with the default settings. > I saw Tan's post where she talked about the settings for an imasge she posted > and saw that she was shooting with contrats, saturation & sharpness settings > all set to high. > > How many of you *istD shooters are not using these defaults and why? I usually set contrast to minimum when shooting JPEGs - that's simply because I think that on default setting it is too high and the result are missing details in shadows or in highlights. Lower contrast gives you opportunity to decide later in Photoshop what to sacrifice and what to preserve. > Also how many are setting custom white balance and not using the presets? > What's your process when you set the white balance? I use presets most of the time when I know what approx. color temperature is. Otherwise in more difficult lighting situations I use manual WB. I just set AF function to activate only with AF button - very handy and you don't have to set focus before you set manual WB... -- Best Regards Sylwek
