This might be completely wrong, but I wonder if the WB settings were affected by the differing specular reflections from the water surface?
John Coyle Brisbane, Australia -----Original Message----- From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan Halpin Sent: Thursday, 6 March 2014 4:28 AM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: K-3 wonkiness Follow-up: I went ahead and used both cameras today. Same strange color balance in the camera A jpg's. To better explain what I am talking about, here is a screen shot taken while downloading into Lightroom. The thumbnails shown have not yet had LR generate a preview and it's own version of a thumbnail based on the DNG. The first 7 of 8 thumbnails shown were taken in fairly rapid sequence as I was following five small boats across the scene, trying to get a shot with a good juxtoposition of the five boats and the lager sailing vessel behind. So all seven shots had the same shooting parameters. You can see the color variation in the thumbnnails. http://photos.stanhalpin.com/p155717848/hC9DBF3E#hc9dbf3e I did wash the camera with cold water prior to using it (;-)> and I did check all settings to verify that I have no "color filters" or other offending choices activated. stan On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:29 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > Not a biggie since i haven't lost anything yet, but this was a bit > disturbing... > > So I carry two K-3's, A and B. A is used more often, it hangs from a wrist > strap. B stays in the backpack or sometimes around my neck if I am switching back and forth between wide and long for example. I occasionally chimp, primarily to check the RGB histograms to make sure I haven't inadvertently changed a setting and put myself out of range. Today on my A camera I was noticing a strange color cast on the LCD. After a few more shots I became convinced that something was wonky, switched to the B camera and went on. > > I just downloaded the shots from camera A via Lightroom. As long as Lightroom > was displaying thumbnails based on the in-camera jpg rendering, the color balance was way off still. But once LR rendered previews, built from the RAW data, everything looks just fine. So, the jpg portion of my K-# processor has a random variable color-balance problem, but the basic DNG capture is just fine. To be clear, there is not a consistent color balance bias toward too much green in the jpg's for example. Rather, it is off in a random way for each shot. > > Since I only shoot DNG and don't capture jpeg's in parallel, the good news > here far outweighs the bad. But still unsettling... > > stan > -- 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.
