If you're shooting JPG, why bother with a grey card??? Kinda like buying a K20 or K7 and never moving the mode dial out off the "green" zone.
The whole point of using a grey card is to correct colors in RAW files. One can't correct JPGs very much, or very accurately. The main difference I see is the sickly green cast in the K100 shots versus very strange colors under various colored lights in the K20 shots. No meaningful comparison possible. (Was that a Wheatfield-toned post, or what??) Cheers, Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW --- On Mon, 7/20/09, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Subject: K20 mojo > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, July 20, 2009, 2:17 PM > I've had the gut feeling that the > image quality of my K20 isn't up to > par. As a matter of fact, in low light situations, it my > not even be > as good as my K100. > > I did an informal test, shooting with both cameras at a > dance Friday > night. The K20 was shot at 3200, 1600 and 800. The > performance shots > were taken at 1600 with a flash > > The K100 was shot at 800, pushing it a stop or two in post > processing. > > The only processing done to the shots was throwing away the > totally > bad ones and "auto tone" in lightroom, with a couple of the > "pre > greycard" shots white balanced, most of the shots are in > camera custom > white balance. They were all shot raw and processed to > 1000x800 in > lightroom. > > These are the two sets. Comments on the photography are > welcome, but > would more reflect the lack of editing, comments on the > apparent > relative performance of the cameras is solicited. > > I used the same lenses (31, 50, 77 and maybe 40) on both > cameras, > mostly at f/1.8 or thereabouts. I mostly used the 50 and > the 77. If > you're curious, check the EXIF for details. > > k20 shots > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157621624892293/ > K100 shots > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157621749191672/ > > > -- > The first step is learning to take great photos, > the second step is learning to throw away ones that are > merely good. > Larry Colen > [email protected] > http://www.red4est.com/lrc > > > -- > 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.
