Bruce's argumentation is exactly my thoughts as well, or at least has been until very recently. I stumbled onto this post at OpenRaw that relates to Pentax raw files: http://openraw.org/node/1541
If this holds for the K10D as well, it makes sense to get the white balance right from the beginning even with raw files. Jostein On 12/8/06, Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the reason I shoot RAW is to not have to deal with WB during > the shoot. This is especially true for weddings, where the lighting > changes quite a bit and you don't have time to fiddle with it, along > with forgetting to change it. > > So even on the *istD, I leave it on AWB and set it in the Raw > converter. I should mention that the Capture One converter makes it > very simple to apply the white balance settings to the rest of the > shoot. So usually I just set it for one of the shots and then apply > to the rest. If there is a group of shots with a different balance, I > set one of those. > > So for me, it really doesn't matter. That is my real world usage. > What I do love is the speed of writing those raw files. My tests > indicate about 1 per second. With the larger burst and that write > speed, my issues with the D in that regard are addressed. > > Maybe some others will weigh in on this. > > -- > Bruce > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
