I use the histogram when I'm working in difficult lighting. With the K10D you can see either a combined histogram or multi-view with luminosity, R, G and B channel curves all separately displayed, so whether white balance is correct or not you get to see what the channels are doing and whether you have any clipping.
I normally leave the K10D on AWB anyway: it does what it can to adjust for the thumbnail and preview, but they're regenerated once I get them onto my computer anyway in either Lightroom or Bridge/Camera Raw. I make final color balance adjustments in RAW conversion. If I need a JPEG that's balanced correctly out of the K10D, I use the RAW- >JPEG processing option and set the color balance then. Godfrey On Feb 4, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Bob W wrote: > Maybe. I never use it. >> >> except histogram which depends on WB AFAIK >> >>> I keep my cameras on daylight white balance all the time, even if >>> I'm >>> in a tungsten-lit room. I can't see any purpose in setting the >>> camera >>> for such things when shooting raw. The only settings that matter are >>> shutter speed, aperture, ISO and colour space, as far as I can see. >>> That keeps things simple and standard. Everything else can be done >>> with the raw editor. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
