I'd like to thank Ciprian for his question, without which I would have been unaware of UniWB. After a bit of reading ( http://www.malch.com/nikon/UniWB.html ) I can see why some bother to try it, however for the way I work I'm afraid it would cause more problems than it would solve. I tend to shoot RAW+ and often just use the JPEG. (I like to have the RAW available in case I get something really good that I want to bring out more in post-processing - or, conversely, something is blown in the JPEG that I'd like to recover from the RAW). The distortion of the JPEG by the UniWB process would be unacceptable to me.
Related? a good article to read, with some good suggestions would be this one by Thom Hogan on Magic Camera Settings: http://www.bythom.com/magicsettings.htm On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 22, 2013, at 10:52 , Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> UniWB, as I understand it, is an effort to find a set of camera >> settings (white balance, etc.) that makes the displayed histogram come >> as close as possible to this ideal. >> > > Ugh - sounds like a lot of work. For the K30 (and K5), there is so much > exposure latitude that if you're really worried about oversaturation, just > "underexpose" by a stop.. or two.. or three.. and bring the levels up to what > you'd like to see in post. Job done! > > Otherwise it seems to me like so much fussing and stressing to "get the right > histogram" that you've forgotten that the reason you have a camera is to take > photos. > > -Charles > > -- > Charles Robinson - [email protected] > Minneapolis, MN > http://charles.robinsontwins.org > http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson > > > -- > 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. -- "Photography is a Bastard left by Science on the Doorstep of Art" - Peter Galassi -- 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.
