Hello and welcome. If my memory does not fail me (which it might),
you're a new poster, at least in de-lurked sense of the word.
Few points:
1. It seems this article is targeted at the people who're willing to
spend their time tinkering with the gear. Without any disrespect to you
and to the author of the article - do you really think this will make
your picture so much better that it is worth all the hassle?
2. With Pentax DSLRs (at least up to K-5 it would seem true, and I don't
have newer models to ascertain that any further) it would seem that the
camera is optimized to extract more usable information from the shadows.
Yet it is more prone to saturation in bright areas. Thus, even if you
achieve this UniWB, you probably wouldn't be to gain much by ETTR
because you would actually risk saturation.
If, as you mentioned in the thread, you're after the review histogram
being as close to that of the actual RAW image, I suggest you simply
play with contrast and other in-camera JPG settings and by experiment
find the settings that suit you. Notably, contrast may need to be dialed
down a bit, because by default the JPGs are optimized for extra punch
which is so popular nowadays.
I should point that dialing contrast all the way to the left may be
still sub-optimal. In fact, you could simply shoot several RAW+JPG
pictures in environment (light+color) controlled by you and arrive to
the optimal settings like this.
But most of all - I do think that even by setting camera to AWB, Hyper
Program Mode and Matrix metering you would be 99% covered and rather
enjoy picture taking and then looking at your photographs afterwards...
Cheers!
Boris
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