On 10 Mar 2005 at 16:34, Jens Bladt wrote: > I believe the auto setting is quite good. > Better perhaps is using the optional manual setting by measuring off a > proper grey card. It's quite easy and very useful for studio work for > instance. (Should this be an ordinary grey card BTW? - AFAIR any neutral > grey or white can be used successfully).
Most gray cards (the Kodak ones especially) aren't neutral gray and really aren't suitable for determining anything but exposure. Great wide band, neutral reference cards are available from GretagMacbeth http://www.gretagmacbeth.com/index/products/products_color- standards/products_colorchecker-charts.htm 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

