I recently purchased a color checker and white balance card (thanks Ann) and I've been experimenting with the WB settings on the *ist D.
So far good news, shooting the color checker in bright sun at the Daylight WB setting provides a very good match to the reference card on a pre-calibrated monitor. But even better is the fact that shooting the same test scene after taking a manual WB off my reference white card produces an image which is very close in colour rendition to the Daylight WB shot. So much so that when I layer the files in PS and use a difference function most of the test patches display almost black indicating very little absolute difference exists between the two files. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998

