On 9 Mar 2005 at 19:11, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > I just noticed that the white balance was set @ 4450 for every shot I took > - about ninety. That tells me that perhaps Bruce had set the WB at that > level for some reason and, of course, not knowing squat about WB, the tones of > the pics are all over the place. So, how important is the proper WB setting? > I > know it can be adjusted in the RAW converters, but does the image suffer in > any > way because of it? What's the best way to set WB on the istD? Use the auto > feature or try to set it by estimating the color temp of the light.
If you are using PS CS RAW the cameras daylight white balance (which is quite accurate BTW) is interpreted as; Temp 4600, Tint -20. So if you want to reset the WB using the PC CS RAW you can set the values as above in the current RAW image and then save these factors using "Save Settings Subset > Only WB" then apply this saved setting to all subsequent images which were shot in daylight. The daylight images won't be degraded in the conversion as the RAW file contains no colour balance, the colour temp and tint factors are simply used in the conversion process as the colour processing reference. I usually estimate WB and stick with the pre-sets on the *ist D when shooting out doors and only generally resort to manual WB off reference cards when I need the best possible colour accuracy in any particular lighting conditions. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
