[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Oct 5, 2006, at 1:46 AM, Gonz wrote: > > >>Of course, the eyedropper can be handy, I use it alot. But not every >>pic is going to have something with grey (equal RGB values). In the >>pictures I was working on , this was the situation. Its a pain to >>have >>to hunt around the white balance space to get what you want when you >>know what the kelvin temp is roughly. > > > I usually find something that ought to be a neutral gray somewhere in > almost every picture. For truly critical work in a stable light > setup, I put a graduated gray card in a test exposure for easy > balancing. >
I do too, but this was not the case in this situation. Still, its disconcerting to see the temp and tint be in some out of whack position which has no relation to reality, and if the tint is all the way or almost all the way on one side, then it leaves you thinking whether or not there is good tint adjustment on the missing side. > >>Thats not the situation in this case. The monitor was calibrated not >>long ago, and everything else works fine, including old PEF files from >>my *istD. These colors (with the Pentax converted DNG) are very off. > > > Hmm. Sounds like there's some issue with the Pentax DNG conversion > then. Have you tried reconverting the DNG outputs with Adobe's DNG > Converter? > > I've noticed that some of the test exposures in DNG I have from the > K100D and from Photokina with the Samsung clone of the K10D also show > radically off balance colors in various utilities. Reconverting the > DNG files with the Adobe converter, or with Camera Raw, has cleaned > that up. > I'm going to try the Adobe convertor and see what happens. Is the K100D supported? It sounds like it if you converted some... > Godfrey > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
