Matthew, You can assign any combination of settings (including white balance) to the "User" spot on the top dial. See page 167 of the manual. That won't let you store a bunch of WBs, though; only one.
I always shoot RAW. In tricky light I toss a black/grey/white card into the scene, and take a shot. In Lightroom I use the eyedropper on the image of the card, and set all the pics from that series to the resulting WB. Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Tue, 5/5/09, Matthew Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Matthew Miller <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [k10d] replicating custom white balance in kelvin + offsets? > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 12:42 AM > 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. -- 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.
