On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 08:48:48PM -0400, Doug Brewer wrote: > 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?
Um, K10D. I can't believe I left that out in such a long message. -- Matthew Miller [email protected] <http://mattdm.org/> The Definitive Pentax P-TTL Flash Model Guide: <http://pttl.mattdm.org/> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
