Matthew Miller wrote:
I often take photographs in my girls' room, which has big green fabric
leaves from Ikea near the ceiling. Bounce flash works great in there, but
everything, not surprisingly, ends up with a green tint. Now, I can -- and
do -- set the white balance perfectly with a gray card. But since the
lighting there is always the same, what I'd _like_ to do is transfer that
setting to one of the three custom white balance settings available.
Unfortunately, there's no way in-camera to read what the snapped white
balance is (is there)? There's some possible information in the extended
EXIF info, but I'm not sure exactly how to interpret it.
On the other side, the G-M axis and B-A axis settings in-camera are without
units -- who knows what 1 step of GM compensation means? I mean, literally,
"who knows"? :) Since the LCD isn't color calibrated (and unlike the K20D
isn't even adjustable), it's hard to tell exactly what changes there are
going to do. I never seem to be able to really get 'em right dialing them
in.
My Olympus P&S camera had a feature where one could store three (or was it
four? -- I forget) different shutter-set custom WB settings. That was
infinitely more useful to me than the custom K settings -- even if I had
expensive lighting with documented output, a gray card reading would
probably be more accurate anyway.
(And yeah, I know that shooting in RAW would relocate the problem to my
computer where I could address the issue in various ways. But I should be
able to do this in camera, shouldn't I? Thanks in advance.)
which camera we talking about here?
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