On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 11:13 AM, Jay Busse wrote:
Digital cameras do tend to pick up subtle variations in color ....................
Strange variations - I should have said local areas of extreme colour temperature variation, I probably didn't make it clear enough but there were areas of daylight, tungsten and flourescent all in the same shot Usually if i do a custom WB no problem ( or even heavens above - leave it on auto the results are acceptable). I'd agree with you that like auto exposure we often need to make corrections/use our intuition.
Outputing those digital files to a medium with gamut similar to photo paper would make for a fairer comparison.
THe job was printed photographically but I left it to the lab to use their judgement re density and colour balance (after all I do it with film) I felt the the first try could have been better and they did to be fair reprint the job but the the colour imbalance still showed. In comparison to the film the digital work was way off.
Saving to raw format would have saved your job, too.
The job proper was shot on film so I have the shots that matter. I was using an S1 ( to JPEG) - not an S2 so didn't have the raw option. but was only shooting digital for candids. The candids would have been the cream on the cake. Temperature balance is one of the aspects that make me nervous about going entirely digital on a wedding. Having said that I will try things on digital where I wouldn't with film.
I was kind of hoping for variable area auto-focus, myself.
Thought that was gaussian blur!
Ian Franklin
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