I shoot only RAW, so I always use AWB and correct the color temperature in conversion. Shot a wedding today (about 300 frames) in various kinds of light. No time to fool with WB. Much easier to adjust it when converting. I don't understand why anyone would want to play with WB unless they're shooting jpegs. And I don't understand why anyone would want to shoot jpegs. Paul On Dec 7, 2006, at 6:24 PM, Digital Image Studio wrote:
> 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 > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
