Well I know I'm not supposed to diss the K10D but the honeymoon period is over now so, has anyone else got past the glitter and sparkle of the K10D WB system and actually tried to use it?
All the time I've been shooting using digital SLRs I've preferred never used AWB and in difficult lighting I prefer to sample WB however I suspect in trying to make the K10D flexible (or in trying to fully utilize the WB functionality available on the image processing system that they chose) Pentax have created a bit of a monster with the K10D. Apart from the WB presets (which can all be trimmed) it has three arbitrary colour temperature memories but unlike the old *ist D the K10D has only one manual WB memory. Being able to play with the WB on the back of the camera is a real novelty but not much more than that for me. All I really needed to do was to be able to sample some standard WB situations (line my studio cold lights and some experimental LED lighting) and be able to save them to a discrete memory location (like on the *ist D). Instead with the K10D, when working in non-standard lighting, I have to sample WB each session (assuming that I've had to make a manual WB elsewhere) or I have to try to translate the WB settings reported by PPL to one of the colour temperature memories (not tried this yet as the PPL sliders are uncalibrated). The *ist D manual WB sampling was a bit fiddly but worked well (needed three hands) and the three memories were very handy, my Oly E10 only had one memory like the K10D but manual WB sampling was very easy (one handed so you could have one hand free to hold the white reference card). The K10D WB system looks pretty and seems flexible but really just makes the camera unnecessarily complex to use and set-up IMO. I'd love to hear how other owners are finding the k10D WB system in use (I have my nicely WB flameproof suite on). -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
